Legal Opinion
Tutunjian v. Vetzigian
New York Court of Appeals
Decided July 19, 1949PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtFuld, J.
The appeal, here by our permission, concerns the efficacy of a single joint will as a contract by each of the two testators not to revoke the will and to dispose of his respective estate in the manner specified.
In 1929, Mihran and Helen Tutunjian, husband and wife, entered into a written agreement whereby each agreed to leave his property to the other, and, on the same day, executed a joint will providing for such a disposition. In addition, the will also recited that, upon the death of one of them, “ then we or the survivor of us do bequeath and devise all our property ’ ’ equally among…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Edson v. . ParsonsNew York Court of Appeals · 1898
- Rastetter v. . HoenningerNew York Court of Appeals · 1915
- Frazier v. PattersonIllinois Supreme Court · 1909
- Baker v. SyfrittSupreme Court of Iowa · 1910
- Hermann v. LudwigAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1919
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3Cited by67 opinions
- Jack Lamberg, Individually and as Under the Will of Ruth N. Wood, Also Known as Ruth I. Wood v. Robert J. Callahan, as Under the Will of Ernest WoodCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1972
- Oursler v. ArmstrongNew York Court of Appeals · 1961
- Rubenstein v. MuellerNew York Court of Appeals · 1967
- McBain v. PrattAlaska Supreme Court · 1973
- Blackmon v. Estate of BattcockNew York Court of Appeals · 1991
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