Kirchner v. Kirchner
New York Supreme Court
Action by executors for accounting and construction of a will.
1Opinion of the CourtMorschauser, J.
The will of Charles Kirchner, deceased, was duly admitted to probate in the Surrogate’s Court, in Dutchess county. Otto Kirchner and -Charles Kirchner qualified as executors and trustees.
The scheme of the will was that, after making certain bequests, all the rest of the real and personal property was devised and bequeathed to the executors in trust, they to pay one-third of the net income to the widow during her life, and the remaining two-thirds of the net income to be paid equally to the seventeen nephews and nieces, mentioned in article if of said will, during the widow’s life.
After the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Peck v. . SherwoodNew York Court of Appeals · 1874
- Dean v. HartSupreme Court of Alabama · 1878
- Sarles v. SarlesNew York Supreme Court · 1887
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