Golland v. Golland
New York Supreme Court
Action to have a secret trust judicially declared. ■
1Opinion of the CourtCardozo, J.
The plaintiff says that a gift in his mother’s will, absolute in form, was subject to a secret trust, which he asks the court to declare, and, declaring, to enforce. Fredericka Golland died in September, 1911, the owner of two houses in the city of New York. She left six children. Two of them, Morris and Jacob, were successful business men, possessed, it was then supposed, of ample wealth. Two, a daughter Annie and a son Isaac, had been deaf and dumb from birth, had been judicially declared insane and were inmates of asylums. Two others, a daughter Amelia, and a son Israel, the plaintiff,…
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