Avery v. Walsh

The late Frank M. Avery, formerly a member of the law firm of Phillips Avery of New York City, is reputed to have been a scholarly and perspicacious person. He died on March 3d 1944, at the age of eighty-six, a resident of Sparta, Sussex County, New Jersey. Death caused by an embolism following a prostatectomy visited him suddenly. Surviving him were his daughter, Marion F. Avery, and two sons, Irving M. Avery and Henry C. Avery.

In February, 1932, the decedent at the age of seventy-four transferred all of his real estate including his menage and all of his personalty, valued collectively for…