In re Thaw
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by Frank G. Turner, as executor and trustee, from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of the county of New York., entered in the office of said Surrogate’s Court on the 30th day of August, 1917. Separate appeals by Paul Berry Sparrell and others from parts of said decree.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
This is a proceeding brought in the Surrogate’s Court, under section 2615 of the Code of Civil Procedure, by Lawrence Copley Thaw, an infant, and the only child and heir at law of Frieda Marsh Young, deceased, to obtain an adjudication as to the validity of one of the clauses of the will of said decedent. The appellants are Frank G. Turner, the executor and trustee named in the will, the special guardians who appear for certain infants remotely interested in sustaining the will, and the petitioner who by his appeal calls in question only the allowances made by the surrogate to the…
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