Pennington v. Metropolitan Museum of Art
New Jersey Court of Chancery
On bill for relief respecting the trust arising under the will and codicils of Jacob S. Rogers, deceased, and for instructions and directions to the trustees thereof. The following extracts from said will and codeils show the trust in question: WiLL OF JACOB S. ROGERS. “Sixteenth.
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On bill for relief respecting the trust arising under the will and codicils of Jacob S. Rogers, deceased, and for instructions and directions to the trustees thereof. The following extracts from said will and codeils show the trust in question: WiLL OF JACOB S. ROGERS. “Sixteenth. All the rest, residue and remainder of my estate real and personal of every nature and kind and wherever situate, I give, devise and bequeath to my brother Columbus B. Rogers and my friend Asabel S. Levy my Executors hereinafter named and appointed. To have and to hoicl unto them their successors and assigns…
1Opinion of the Court
Mague, Chancellor.
Complainants are the executors of Jacob S. Eogers, deceased, and hold, as trustees, the personal and real property withdrawn and excluded from the residuary disposition made by the sixteenth clause of the will of the testator, and created a trust fund by the provisions of the second clause of the first codicil to said will. Their bill seeks specific relief respecting the disposition and management of the trust fund, and it contains a prayer for general relief.
The defendants are the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a corporation of the city of New York; Theodore B. Eogers, Jr.;…
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