The great-great-grandson of William H. Seward, who was President Lincoln’s Secretary of State during the Civil War, lacks standing to reopen the estate of Seward’s grandson, William H. Seward III, to protect a painting given to Secretary Seward while he was governor of New York. An appellate court in New York has ruled that the Attorney General has adequate authority to protect the painting and that there is no evidence the AG is not doing the job. ( In Re: Estate of William H. Seward, III , Sup. Ct., NY, App. Div., Fourth Dept., 6/13/14 .) The case involves a painting by Thomas Cole entitled “Portage Falls on the Genessee” which was owned by Seward III when he died in the early 1950s. He...