Legal Opinion
In re the Probate of the Will of Reckford
New York Court of Appeals
Decided June 3, 1954PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtVan Voorhis, J.
This appeal concerns the personal property in the residuary estate of Florence J. Reckendorfer, who died in 1907. She gave the life use of it without the appointment of a trustee to her husband Samuel J. Reckendorfer, who later changed his name to Reckford, and, upon his' death, she directed that it should go to such of their children or their children’s issue as her surviving husband might by will appoint. This constituted the husband, in effect, a trustee of the principal of her residuary estate (Matter of von Kleist, 265 N. Y. 422; Matter of Denton, 102 N. Y. 200). Her husband was…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Claim of Raymond v. Estate of DavisNew York Court of Appeals · 1928
- White v. RankinAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
- In Re the Will of Von KleistNew York Court of Appeals · 1934
- In Re the Final Accounting of DentonNew York Court of Appeals · 1886
- White v. . RankinNew York Court of Appeals · 1900
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3Cited by10 opinions
- In re the Estate of JohnsonNew York Surrogate's Court · 1956
- Grimm v. CommissionerUnited States Tax Court · 1965
- In re the Probate of the Will of ReckfordNew York Court of Appeals · 1954
- Gertrude (Gertrud, Trude) Kammholz, Ingeborg Kammholz v. Donald Allen, Albert HirstCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1958
- Grimm v. CommissionerUnited States Tax Court · 1965
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