Legal Opinion
In re the Estate of Dering
New York Surrogate's Court
Decided June 8, 1931PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Evans, S.
This is a proceeding for the judicial settlement of this estate coupled with the necessity of discovering the identity of a legatee named in the will of this testatrix. This instrument disposed of an estate valued in excess of a half million dollars. We are now concerned with one of several provisions in the 6th *358paragraph of the will that reads as follows: "To the Women’s Auxiliary to the Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the sum of Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).”
This bequest is now claimed by “ The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- White v. . HowardNew York Court of Appeals · 1871
- Lefevre v. . LefevreNew York Court of Appeals · 1875
- Kernochan v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1919
- Fralick v. LyfordAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905
- Bowman v. Domestic & Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United StatesNew York Court of Appeals · 1905
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3Cited by3 opinions
- In re the Estate of KorzeniewskaNew York Surrogate's Court · 1937
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- In re the Final Accounting of the First Bank & Trust Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1932