In re the Accounting of the Bank of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtBirns, J.
In this appeal from part of a decree entered in the Surrogate’s Court, we are asked to decide whether the term "issue” in a will should be construed to include illegitimate grandchildren of an income beneficiary of a trust established under the terms of that will.
*56Mary Hoffman, the testatrix died in 1951. Her will established a trust for the benefit of her two cousins and provided that when the first of the two should die, his one-half share of the income should be paid for the remainder of the trust term "to his issue”.
One cousin is still living; the other died in 1965, survived by a daughter…
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