In re the Accounting of Rothenberg

Moss, S.

Incidental to the judicial settlement of their account the surviving executors seek a determination as to whether certain legacies under the will have lapsed and fixation of their attorneys’ compensation.

Testatrix by her will made certain legacies payable to Molly Zapolsky, Sarah Bielski and Morris Zapolsky, residents of the town of Slonim, Poland. By paragraph “ Seventh ” of her will, testatrix provided that in the event it shall be impossible for any of the legatees named to receive and take actual possession of his or her bequest “ by reason of any foreign law, decree, rule,…