Legal Opinion

In re the Estate of Wells

New York Surrogate's Court

Decided August 8, 1962PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

Joseph A. Cox, S.

Decedent died on March 25,1925. His will dated February 16,1922 and a codicil thereto dated October 20, 1924 were admitted to probate. In paragraph fourth of his will testator divided his residuary estate into 11 equal parts and *830directed that 9 of them he held in trust. Testator provided that the income from the share which he denominated as number 11 be paid to his granddaughter Mary Yalette Wells for life. Upon her death the corpus of said share 11 is payable to her ‘ ‘ heirs-at-law of my blood ’ ’ provided, however, that she had the right to dispose of one half of the…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Matter of New York Life Insurance and Trust CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1913
  2. In re the Estate of HarrimanNew York Surrogate's Court · 1924
  3. In re the Estate of WalbridgeNew York Surrogate's Court · 1942
  4. In re the Estate of RogersNew York Surrogate's Court · 1938
  5. In re the Accounting of LuquerNew York Surrogate's Court · 1950

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. In re the Estate of BrownNew York Surrogate's Court · 1983

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