
    Casey vs. Gardiner. In the matter of the estate of George A. Gardiner, deceased.
    
    A renunciation may be retracted by executors at any time before the grant of administration. This is rather a matter of right, than a privilege within the discretion of the Surrogate. Renunciation of the right to administer is governed by the same rule.
    When at an early stage of the cause, the public administrator had renounced his priority in behalf of a creditor contesting the administration with the next of kin, and he subsequently withdrew the renunciation and claimed letters, held, that it was not in the discretion of the court to refuse permission.
    P. B. Sweeney, Public Administrator, in person.
    
    John McKeon,
    A. L. Robertson, for Creditor.
    
   The Surrogate.  