Legal Opinion
In re the Estate of De Forest
New York Surrogate's Court
Decided March 15, 1933PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Foley, S.
Certain questions as to the construction of the; will are raised in this accounting of the executors. At least one of them is novel — May a business corporation be the beneficiary of a trust? The testator was a distinguished lawyer of long experience in wills and estates. His own will, like that of Samuel J. Tilden and other eminent lawyers, has not escaped the doubts of interpretation and the hazards of litigation.(1) By the second and fourth codicils to his will the testator gave to his executors, in trust, the sum of $100,000 with certain directions to pay the income or principal,…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Allen v. . StevensNew York Court of Appeals · 1899
- Matter of TrevorNew York Court of Appeals · 1924
- In Re the Will of HornerNew York Court of Appeals · 1924
- In Re the Probate of the Will ShattuckNew York Court of Appeals · 1908
- Holmes v. . MeadNew York Court of Appeals · 1873
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3Cited by11 opinions
- In Re the Estate of OlsonSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 2008
- In re the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Proceedings of the Fifth Avenue BankAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1934
- E. Wesley Hammond, Charles E. Shain, Deane C. Avery, Evan Hill and Walter Baker, Trustees of the Day Trust v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1985
- In re the Estate of LynnNew York Surrogate's Court · 1940
- Alcoma Corp. v. AckermanNew York Supreme Court · 1960
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