Legal Opinion
Beckett v. Morgan
New York Supreme Court
Decided January 15, 1924Published
1Opinion of the CourtDike, J.
J. P. Morgan & Co., bankers, became the depositary of certain securities and moneys which had been delivered to Lucy E. Lee and Katherine P. Hurlbert, life legatees under the last will and testament of Katharine Roxana Field, by an order of the *230Supreme Court, Kings county, in 1903, which order was made in a certain final accounting in said estate by William Jay, sole surviving executor, and which order among other things directed that said property be so placed with the depositary, above mentioned, upon the life legatees giving a bond that the principal should not be dissipated, they to enjoy…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- In Re the Accounting of CraneNew York Court of Appeals · 1900
- Herzog v. . Title Guarantee Trust Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1903
- Stokes v. . WestonNew York Court of Appeals · 1894
- In Re the Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of YoungNew York Court of Appeals · 1895
- Shindler v. RobinsonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1912