Legal Opinion
In re the Estate of Loud
New York Surrogate's Court
Decided August 1, 1972PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Nathan R. Sobel, S.
This decedent was stabbed to death by his paramour. She is the named beneficiary of a small insurance policy on his life. The Public Administrator, in his petition to settle this account, requests the court to determine who is entitled to the proceeds.
The killer is not a distributee. We do not have here the question whether a killer may either as a distributee or legatee benefit from the estate of his victim. (See Matter of Bobula, 19 N Y 2d 818; Riggs v. Palmer, 115 N. Y. 506; Petrie v. Chase Manhattan Bank, 38 A D 2d 206; Matter of Jacobs, 2 A D 2d 774, affd. 3 N Y 2d…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Riggs v. . PalmerNew York Court of Appeals · 1889
- New York Mutual Life Insurance v. ArmstrongSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Bierbrauer v. MoranAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1935
- In re the Estate of SparksNew York Surrogate's Court · 1939
- In re the Accounting of StanleyNew York Surrogate's Court · 1945
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3Cited by16 opinions
- Miller v. Continental InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1976
- Connecticut General Life Insurance v. ColeDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1993
- In re the Estate of PinnockNew York Surrogate's Court · 1975
- In re the Estate of WellsNew York Surrogate's Court · 1973
- In re the Estate of SchwartzNew York Surrogate's Court · 1986
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