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In re the Application for Letters of Temporary Administration on the Goods, Chattels & Credits of Hill

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided February 19, 1915PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal by Equitable Trust Company of New York, as committee, etc., from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of the county of New York, bearing date the ITth day of December, 1914, removing Maria J. M. Lawrence as temporary administratrix, etc., of Marie Hill, deceased, and also from an order bearing date the 15th day of January, 1915, resettling and amending the prior order nunc pro tunc.

1Opinion of the Court

Clarke, J.:

In 1913 Mrs. Marie Hill, a childless widow, residing in Dresden, Germany, commenced an action against the Guaranty Trust Company and J. Lynch Pendergast, as trustees under the last will and testament of Josephine Stephani, deceased, Alphonse J. Stephani and the Equitable Trust Company of Hew York, as committee of the estate of Alphonse J. Stephani, to construe the will of Josephine Stephani' and to have declared unlawful a certain accumulation of income thereunder in the hands of said trustees arising -under the trust created by said will, of which trust Alphonse J. Stephani was…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Hill v. Guaranty Trust Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1914

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. In re the Estate of HartfordNew York Surrogate's Court · 1920

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