Legal Opinion

In re the Accounting of Brodley

New York Surrogate's Court

Decided February 27, 1950Published

1Opinion of the Court

Collins, S.

In connection with their final accounting the executors request a construction of certain paragraphs of the will and codicil of the decedent. The court holds that under paragraph eleventh of the will and article third of the codicil, Isidore Levy is entitled to receive a legacy of $500. Either his promissory note was paid during the lifetime of the decedent or it is forgiven by the provision in the will. The legacy in the codicil is therefore payable to him.

In paragraph fifteenth of his will decedent gave a legacy to the Harlem Hebrew Day and Night Nursery on condition that *468it…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. In Re the Accounting of TamargoNew York Court of Appeals · 1917
  2. In re CraneAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1923
  3. Matter of CraneNew York Court of Appeals · 1923
  4. In Re the Will of RoeNew York Court of Appeals · 1939
  5. In re CourtneyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1924

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