Mead v. . Maben
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of. the General Term of the Supreme ■Court in the third judicial department, entered upon an order made May 21,1891, which reversed a judgment entered upon a decree of the surrogate of the county of Greene, settling the accounts of the petitioners as executors. This was a proceeding for the judicial settlement of the accounts of the executors of the last will and testament of Buel Maben, deceased.
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Appeal from judgment of. the General Term of the Supreme ■Court in the third judicial department, entered upon an order made May 21,1891, which reversed a judgment entered upon a decree of the surrogate of the county of Greene, settling the accounts of the petitioners as executors. This was a proceeding for the judicial settlement of the accounts of the executors of the last will and testament of Buel Maben, deceased. The material portions of the will of said testator and the facts are stated in the opinion. The testator had a legal right to devise and bequeath to his executors and trustees…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, J.
Upon the accounting of these executors the question arose as to the distribution of the share in the testator’s estate, which was given by his will to a daughter, since deceased. It is claimed on the one hand by her administrator and on the other by the other children of the testator. This daughter, in dying, left her surviving a husband, but no issue. Turning to the testator’s will for a determination of this question, we find, in the first three clauses, that he made certain unimportant bequests. In the fourth clause he gave the rest of his property to his executors, to be disposed of as…
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