Legal Opinion

In Re the Will of Friend

New York Court of Appeals

Decided May 28, 1940PublishedCited by 25 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Lehman, Ch. J.

The testator died on June 30, 1932. Four children, two daughters and two married sons, survived him. In his will (paragraph fourteenth) he directed his executors to divide his residuary estate into four equal parts. In four separate clauses of the same paragraph he then disposed of the four parts. In each of such clauses he provided that one share should be held in trust during the lifetime of the child named in that clause and the interest paid to such child and after the death of the life beneficiary leaving issue, the testator devised that share to such issue. In the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Schettler v. . SmithNew York Court of Appeals · 1869
  2. Schermerhorn v. . CottingNew York Court of Appeals · 1892

3Cited by25 opinions

  1. In re the Accounting of HellerNew York Court of Appeals · 1954
  2. Hill v. AldrichMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1951
  3. Gannett v. ShepleySupreme Court of Missouri · 1943
  4. Erny TrustSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1964
  5. In re the Estate of TrotterNew York Surrogate's Court · 1940

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