In re the Construction of the Will of Shupack

Consolidated proceeding to construe a will and to determine the validity and effect of an election by the testator’s widow, under section 18 of the Decedent Estate Law, to take an intestate share of the estate. The widow appeals from so much of a decree of the Surrogate’s Court, Queens County, as (1) adjudges that the testamentary trustee has plenary managerial control of certain corporations, the stock of which was wholly owned by the testator and the assets of which were real property; and (2) determines the proceeding regarding the election adversely to the widow. Decree modified on the…