Schanck v. Hooper
New York Supreme Court
Action by Willard P. Schanck and another as committee, etc., against Mary Temple Van Voorhis Hooper, to set aside transfer of bank deposit. Judgment for plaintiffs.
1Opinion of the CourtRodenbeck, J.
The conspicuous fact that stands out above all
others in the history of this feeble old lady, Mrs. Harriett Van Voorhis, is that when she went to live with a niece of her husband, Mrs. Hooper, November 7, 1914, she was possessed of a chattel mortgage for $1,371.67, a bond and mortgage on real property for $1,087.50, and money in the bank amounting to $3,482.57, and when she left there to go to live with her other relations, July 26, 1915, a period of a little over 8 months, she had disposed or been relieved of all of it, and was a pauper at 86 years of age. Mrs. Hooper had agreed to take care…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Boyd v. . De La MontagnieNew York Court of Appeals · 1878
- Van Deusen v. . SweetNew York Court of Appeals · 1873
- Vollkommer v. . CodyNew York Court of Appeals · 1904
- In re Probate of a Paper Propounded as the Last Will and Testament of PrestonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1906
- Sander v. SavageAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1902
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