In re Leavitt
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by Edith M. Barker-Ransom and others from an order and decree of the Surrogate’s Court of the county of New York, entered in said Surrogate’s Court on the 3d day of July, 1909, appointing an additional trustee of the estate of George Bell, deceased.
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
George Bell died in 1881, leaving a will l)y which lie gave his residuary estate to his executors in trust to pay the' income therefrom in equal shares to his twd nephews, George A. Barker and Charles. B. Barker, and his niece, Mary E. Leavitt, the petitioner herein, during the life of his daughter, Catherine B. Bell, who was then and still is an incompetent. Upon the death of the latter without issue (she is now seventy years of age, unmarried, and confined in an asylum) the two nephews were each to receive one-tliird of the principal and. the remaining third was to be…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Borrowe v. CorbinAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898
- Bushe v. WrightAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907
- In Re the Judicial Settlement of Accounts of BoltonNew York Court of Appeals · 1899
- Borrowe v. . CorbinNew York Court of Appeals · 1901
- In re HazardNew York Supreme Court · 1889
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- Runk v. ThomasAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1910
- In re ZeregaNew York Surrogate's Court · 1913
- Goldstein v. Trustees of Sailors' Snug HarborAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1950
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