Murray v. Hoey

BYERS, District Judge.

The plaintiffs, as executors of Ella V. von E. Wendel, seek judgment to recover $17,674.50, with interest from December 1, 1936, representing the aggregate amount of United States documentary stamps affixed to six deeds conveying the residuary real estate formerly the property of the decedent (and passing under the Twenty-third paragraph of her will to fourteen charitable, benevolent, educational or religious corporations) to Wendel Foundation, a charitable membership corporation duly created by Chapter 947 of the Laws of 1935 of the State of New York.

The right to claim…