Beck v. Staudt
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Elizabeth M. Beck, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 19th day of May, 1911, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, J.:
Joseph Huber, the defendants’ testator, purchased ten unregistered bonds of the Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad Company. Upon his death the bonds were found in his safe deposit *36box in an envelope across the face of which was written in his handwriting the words: “ The property of Miss Lizzie Beck, 842 Forest Avenue, N. Y.” He alone had access to the box. The plaintiff seeks to recover the bonds on the theory that he at least created a tentative trust for her which, upon his death, becomes irrevocable.
The opinion of Mr. Justice Lehman, who decided the case at Special Term,…
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