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In re the Accounting of Rochester Trust & Safe Deposit Co.

New York Surrogate's Court

Decided September 4, 1945PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

Feely, S.

On this final judicial settlement of the accounts of the executor-trustee the court is asked to construe the last will of this testator, dated May 9, 1943, for the purpose of ascertaining the intention and determining the legal effect of the act of this testator in having put his entire estate into an express trust, which in its residuary provision directs the residue be given as a building fund to an unincorporated chapel in England, which the heirs claim is« a body incapable legally of taking a legacy, either directly, or through a trust.

The will became effective on testator’s…

2Cases cited32 opinions

  1. Chamberlain v. . ChamberlainNew York Court of Appeals · 1871
  2. Cross v. United States Trust Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1892
  3. Hope v. . BrewerNew York Court of Appeals · 1892
  4. Ely v. . MegieNew York Court of Appeals · 1916
  5. In Re the Accounting of MorrisNew York Court of Appeals · 1919

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3Cited by1 opinion

  1. In re the Accounting of Rochester Trust & Safe Deposit Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1946

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