Legal Opinion
In re the Estate of Knox
New York Surrogate's Court
Decided June 2, 1937PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
Wingate, S.
The manner of submission of the present controversy is comparable to an oasis in a desert of bitter and acrimonious litigation. Counsel for one of the interested parties has incorporated in his memorandum a brief, succinct and yet comprehensive, statement of the pertinent facts, and all have executed a stipulation that the facts thus stated “ are in all respects true and correct.”
The litigation concerns a subject which, in certain aspects, has given rise to great diversity of legal opinion, namely, the right of life tenants to an apportionment upon the sale of unproductive real…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- In re the Estate of SmallmanNew York Surrogate's Court · 1931
- In Re the Accounting of Brooklyn Trust Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1932
- In Re the Accounting of RowlandNew York Court of Appeals · 1937
- Whittemore v. Judd Linseed & Sperm Oil Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1891
- In re the Estate of JacobsNew York Surrogate's Court · 1935
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3Cited by1 opinion
- In re the Estate of HilliardNew York Surrogate's Court · 1937