Legal Opinion
In re the Estate of Hoffher
New York Surrogate's Court
Decided July 1, 1937Published
1Opinion of the Court
Feely, S.
This court is now asked to decide whether a specific legacy, or a general one, was created, or both, by the provisions o' the seventeenth paragraph of the last will of this testatrix, which reads thus:
“ I give to my executor, hereinafter named, the sum of fifty-four hundred dollars ($5400.00) for the following purposes, to wit: To pay therefrom the mortgage held by the Home Savings Bank of Albany, New York, against the property of my sister, Juliana Rummel Kinnen, at 2220 East Main Street, Rochester, New York, and obtain the discharge thereof and record the same in Monroe County…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Pierrepont v. . EdwardsNew York Court of Appeals · 1862
- Florence v. SandsNew York Surrogate's Court · 1880
- In re the Judicial Settlement of the Account of CarrNew York Surrogate's Court · 1898
- In re the Estate of NewtonNew York Surrogate's Court · 1933
- In re the Judicial Settlement of the Account of BedfordNew York Surrogate's Court · 1910