Legal Opinion · Dissent

In re the Accounting of Allan

New York Court of Appeals

Decided March 5, 1959Published

1Dissent

Desmond, J. (dissenting in part).

I dissent from so much of this decision as allows appellant executor to replead the objection that decedent “ did not act voluntarily and of her own free will, but rather as the result of unreasonable pressure, possibly constituting duress, exerted either by Virginia A. Luginbuhl, now Virginia A. Carter, a party to this proceeding, or by other persons whose names are at present unknown to objectant.” Such language raised no issue and was meaningless as a pleading (see Kamenitsky v. Corcoran, 177 App. Div. 605; Liscomb v. Agate, 51 Hun 288; Prouty v. Nichols,…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Kalmanash v. SmithNew York Court of Appeals · 1943
  2. Radich v. HutchinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
  3. Gerdes v. ReynoldsNew York Court of Appeals · 1939
  4. Kamenitsky v. CorcoranAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1917
  5. Prouty v. NicholsAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1953

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