In Re the Probate of the Will of Robinson
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an orclei of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered June 16, 1911, so far as it affirms that part of a decree of the Westchester County Surrogate’s Court which adjudged a specified trust contained in the will of the testatrix invalid. Mary S. Robinson, the testatrix, died a resident of Westchester county, October 16, 1909, leaving an estate consisting of personal property only.
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Appeal from an orclei of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered June 16, 1911, so far as it affirms that part of a decree of the Westchester County Surrogate’s Court which adjudged a specified trust contained in the will of the testatrix invalid. Mary S. Robinson, the testatrix, died a resident of Westchester county, October 16, 1909, leaving an estate consisting of personal property only. She left an instrument in writing bearing date January 26, 1904, purporting to be her last will and testament. It was offered for probate in the Surrogate’s…
1Opinion of the CourtChase, J.
Gifts for religious, educational, charitable or benevolent uses, to indefinite or uncertain beneficiaries, are now permitted in this state by express- provision of statute. (Personal Property Law, sec. 12, Laws of 1909, chap. 45; Real Property Law, sec. 113, Laws of 1909, chap. 52.)
The law relating to gifts for charitable uses as it existed prior to chapter 701 of the Laws of 1893, which was substantially re-enacted in said Personal Property Law and said Real Property Law, has been changed. (Matter of Shattuck, 193 N. Y. 446; Bowman v. Domestic & For eign Miss. Soc., 182 N. Y. 494; Allen v.…
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