Legal Opinion
In re the Estate of Zaiac
New York Surrogate's Court
Decided April 9, 1937PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Wingate, S.
No more eloquent argument against war as an institution of national policy could be conceived than that which is supplied by the history of the present decedent, whose physical demise occurred on November 6, 1934, but whose mental death dates back to the days of Chateau Thierry and the Champagne offensive from which he emerged wounded in body and broken in mind, condemned to incarceration for a decade and a half in one hospital after another.
A youth of Polish extraction, he enlisted in the armed forces of the United States on June 1, 1917, and became a private in the One Hundred…
2Cases cited35 opinions
- In Re the Estate of GreenbergNew York Court of Appeals · 1933
- In re Brooklyn Trust Co.New York Surrogate's Court · 1929
- In Re the Accounting of Brooklyn Trust Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1930
- S. W. Scott & Co. v. ScottAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1919
- In Re Proving the Will of FraschNew York Court of Appeals · 1927
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3Cited by9 opinions
- In re the Estate of HilpertNew York Surrogate's Court · 1937
- In Re the Probate of the Will of ZaiacNew York Court of Appeals · 1939
- In re the Estate of BuckleyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1976
- In re the Estate of DumontNew York Surrogate's Court · 1938
- In the Matter of the Estate of Dorothy D. Buckley, Deceased. Appeal of Ethel Paiewonsky, a and the Roman Catholic Church, Prelature of the Virgin Islands, Inc., a Purported BeneficiaryCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1976
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