Estate of Philip Meriano, Deceased, Anita Panepinto, Administratrix - Page 12

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          for Mary Orlando, stating that the estate had illegally                     
          distributed moneys to Mary Orlando and others.  The alleged                 
          illegality was premised on her representation that she was the              
          lawful beneficiary of the estate.  She also claimed that all fees           
          paid out to Lynch and Reardon had to be returned to the estate.             
               In approximately January 1983, INA retained attorney Robert            
          Boote (Boote) of the law firm of Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-             
          Cohen, Philadelphia, to prepare and file an account of the estate           
          with the Orphans' Court for INA in its capacity as surety.                  
               Boote determined that there were no organized records                  
          maintained by the estate.  Boote assumed that Lynch was the                 
          attorney for Mary Orlando, as administratrix of the estate,                 
          although he never saw any document to confirm that assumption.              
          He did, however, see the agreement of August 7, 1978, between               
          Mary Orlando, as administratrix of the estate, and Lynch pursuant           
          to which Lynch had been hired to recover the stolen securities.             
               Boote requested Lynch to provide him with records of the               
          estate that would enable Boote to prepare an account for the                
          estate.  Lynch was not forthcoming in providing Boote with estate           
          records and the records that Boote did obtain from Lynch were               
          disorganized and not very helpful to Boote in his task of                   
          preparing an account.  Boote's law firm had an estate accounting            
          department, and he assigned an experienced estate accountant to             
          request records from their original sources such as brokerage               
          houses and banks and to work with the estate's accountant at the            




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