In re the Estate of Spross
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
In a proceeding by the executors of Charles Gilbert Spross, deceased, for the judicial settlement of their final account and for the judicial construction of the twelfth paragraph of the testator’s will to determine whether four children of the testator’s predeceased nephew and nieces are entitled to share in the residuary estate, the petitioners, individually as residuary legatees and also as executors, appeal from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court, Dutchess County, entered February 1, 1963 upon the court’s opinion, which construed the will to mean that said four children “receive the share…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Matter of CrawfordNew York Court of Appeals · 1889
- Lightfoot v. KaneAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1915
- In re the Estate of SprossNew York Surrogate's Court · 1963