Legal Opinion
In re the Accounting of the National Commercial Bank & Trust Co.
New York Supreme Court
Decided November 4, 1963Published
1Opinion of the CourtJoseph P. Molinari, J.
The case involves the distribution upon the death of the life tenant of funds held by the National Commercial Bank & Trust Company in trust by court order from a sale of real property formerly owned by Edward Severin Clark.
Paragraph 9 of the will of Edward Severin Clark provides in part that certain premises known as ‘1 Fenimore ’ ’ should be given and devised to his brother Stephen Carlton Clark for and during the term of his natural life, and that upon his death the residue was given to such one of the descendants of his grandfather, Edward Clark, as Stephen Carlton Clark designated in his…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Waterman v. New York Life Insurance & Trust Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1923
- In re the Estate of PulitzerNew York Surrogate's Court · 1934
- In Re the Accounting of PulitzerNew York Court of Appeals · 1936