Matter of Manufacturers & Traders Trust Co. (Williams) (2025 NYSlipOp 07176)
Matter of Manufacturers & Traders Trust Co. (Williams)
2025 NYSlipOp 07176 [244 AD3d 1807]
December 23, 2025
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, February 4, 2026


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 In the Matter of the Intermediate Accounting of Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, as Trustee of the Robert S. Bassett Trust Number 7 of 1974, for the Period Covering September 7, 1983 to October 18, 2013, et al., Respondents. Sue M. Williams et al., Appellants. (Appeal No. 1.)

Daniel H. Williams, III, Buffalo, for Objectants-appellants.

Hodgson Russ LLP, Buffalo (Kevin M. Kearney of counsel), for petitioner-respondent.

Appeal from an order of the Surrogate's Court, Erie County (Stephen W. Cass, A.S.), entered August 1, 2024. The order, among other things, approved the fees and costs of the guardians ad litem.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed with costs for reasons stated in the decision by the Surrogate. Present—Whalen, P.J., Curran, Montour, Smith and DelConte, JJ.