Legal Opinion
In re the Accounting of Marine Midland Trust Co.
New York Surrogate's Court
Decided February 8, 1956PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Roy M. Page, S.
The testatrix, Tressa H. Butts, died December 13,1890. The person she named in her will as “ my adopted daughter Iona ” (never legally adopted), who was constituted as the legal life tenant of all the estate of said testatrix, survived her. The said Iona, her full name at her death being Iona May Butts Sherwood Storms (hereinafter referred to as Iona), died on the 29th day of December, 1954, leaving her surviving one child, a daughter named Nellie Pierson.
The last will and testament of said Tressa H. Butts, deceased, was duly admitted to probate in Broome County Surrogate’s…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Baer v. HendricksNew York Court of Appeals · 1895
- Smith v. . EdwardsNew York Court of Appeals · 1882
- Gilliam v. . Guaranty Trust Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1906
- In Re the Accounting of the Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1923
- In Re the Accounting of BarryNew York Court of Appeals · 1949
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3Cited by2 opinions
- In re the Will of PowersNew York Surrogate's Court · 1960
- In re the Accounting of FlowerNew York Surrogate's Court · 1957