Legal Opinion
In re the Construction of the Will of Bemis
New York Surrogate's Court
Decided April 22, 1924PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
Slater, S.
The testatrix died March 6, 1920, leaving certain shares of stock of several of the Standard Oil companies. Since her death these companies have earned large sums from which extraordinary stock dividends have been declared. It becomes necessary to construe the will in order to ascertain the intention of the decedent regarding the extraordinary dividends. Matter of Tod, No. 1, 85 Misc. Rep. 298. A special guardian has been named to represent living and unborn remaindermen. Lanier v. Taylor, 186 App. Div. 270, 277. The life tenants claim that these stock dividends were declared out of…
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