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In re the Estate of Morningstar

New York Surrogate's Court

Decided April 25, 1932PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Wingate, S.

It may reasonably be doubted whether those persons other than the actual litigants, if any, who read judicial opinions relating to testamentary construction, have ever realized that the process therein unfolded bears a striking similarity to a certain type of ever popular mystery fiction of the present day. The task of the central figure in these romances is to determine the perpetrator of a given criminal act, while that of the court, in testamentary interpretation, is to ascertain what disposition of his property a particular decedent desired to effect on the date when he…

2Cases cited32 opinions

  1. New York Life Insurance & Trust Co. v. WinthropNew York Court of Appeals · 1923
  2. In Re the Accounting of the Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1914
  3. Soper v. . BrownNew York Court of Appeals · 1892
  4. Nugent v. PowellWyoming Supreme Court · 1893
  5. Ferrer v. . PyneNew York Court of Appeals · 1880

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. In re the Estate of MarshNew York Surrogate's Court · 1932
  2. In re the Estate of BlakeNew York Surrogate's Court · 1933
  3. In re the Estate of NebeNew York Surrogate's Court · 1935
  4. In re the Estate of BommerNew York Surrogate's Court · 1936

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