Legal Opinion

Reppert v. Hunter

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided November 14, 1917Published

Cross-appeals by the plaintiffs, George H. Reppert and another, and by the defendant, Mary Eva Grier Hunter, individually and as trustee, from a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 7th day of May, 1917, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day severing this action into two actions and directing judgment in favor of defendant as to part of the cause of action alleged in the complaint.

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Cross-appeals by the plaintiffs, George H. Reppert and another, and by the defendant, Mary Eva Grier Hunter, individually and as trustee, from a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 7th day of May, 1917, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day severing this action into two actions and directing judgment in favor of defendant as to part of the cause of action alleged in the complaint. The judgment appealed from was rendered pursuant to the order.

1Opinion of the Court

Foote, J.:

By the complaint plaintiffs seek to have it adjudged that certain shares of the capital stock of the Empire Worsted Mills and certain bonds and promissory notes of that company and of other persons, and certain shares of stock in the Union Trust Company assigned to the defendant on January 10, 1899, by James S. Patterson and Margaret M. Patterson, both since deceased, were transferred and delivered to the defendant in trust to apply the income to the support of certain persons, including the plaintiffs, during the life of the defendant, and upon her death that the principal should…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Clark v. LevyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1909
  2. In re the Final Accounting of HunterAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1915
  3. Neun v. B. H. Bacon Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1910

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