Legal Opinion

In re the Accounting of Wamsley

New York Surrogate's Court

Decided May 21, 1956PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Maximilian Moss, S.

As an incident to their accounting, the petitioning trustees request a judicial determination of the termination of the trust created under the “ Fifteenth ” clause of the testatrix’ will which reads as follows:

*483“Fifteenth: I hereby give, devise and bequeath unto my Executors and Trustees and the survivor of them all the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, real, personal and mixed and wheresoever the same may be situated, including lapsed and void legacies, and, if the said Philip Victor Maysmor Wamsley and Gilbert Norman Wamsley both survive me, to divide the same…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Matter of WentworthNew York Court of Appeals · 1920
  2. In Re the Will of ChalmersNew York Court of Appeals · 1934
  3. United States Trust Co. v. TaylorAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1920
  4. United States Trust Company of New York v. . TaylorNew York Court of Appeals · 1922
  5. Matter of Reed v. BrowneNew York Court of Appeals · 1946

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3Cited by9 opinions

  1. In re the Estate of SacklerNew York Surrogate's Court · 1989
  2. In re the Construction of the Will of FiscusAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1974
  3. In re the Estate of BeckerNew York Surrogate's Court · 1966
  4. In re the Estate of RunalsNew York Surrogate's Court · 1972
  5. In re the Estate of TietzNew York Surrogate's Court · 1963

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