Legal Opinion

In re the Accounting of Tod

New York Surrogate's Court

Decided July 15, 1914Published

Proceeding upon the accounting of trustees.

1Opinion of the Court

Fowler, S.

The supplementary statement of facts submitted since my decision upon the question of the apportionment of extraordinary dividends between the life tenants and the remaindermen shows that of the 147 297699—983383 shares of stock of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana received by the trustees on account of that part of the residuary estate held for the benefit of William S. Tod, 115 789743-983383 shares should have been apportioned by the trustees to the corpus of the trust fund. The shares were, however, transferred by the trustees to the life tenant at their market value *381on the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Ludington v. Mercantile National BankAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905
  2. In Re the Accounting of AndersonNew York Court of Appeals · 1914

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