Thummess v. Von Hoffman

JONES, Circuit Judge.

At the time Von Hoffman, the appellee, was adjudicated a bankrupt by the District Court for the District of New Jersey, he was possessed of the beneficial right to one-half of the income from a trust created by the will of his deceased mother, who had died resident in Bronx County, New York. After her death and prior to the son’s bankruptcy, her will and codicil thereto had been duly probated before the Surrogate for said County and State, to whose jurisdiction the trust has ever since been subject. The legal title to the trust is in the testamentary trustee provided for…