Legal Opinion
In Re the Accounting of Brooklyn Trust Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided January 21, 1925PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, J.
Mrs. Seymour died in 1920. By her will she devised and bequeathed substantially all her property to trustees with instructions to pay the income therefrom to certain beneficiaries named therein for life. The chief of these were her husband, a man then eighty-five years old. On the death of the beneficiaries the trustees were instructed to pay the principal to- the Church Charity Foundation of Long Island, a charitable corporation.
The statute provides that “No person having a husband, wife, child or parent, shall, by his or her last will and testament, devise or bequeath to any benevolent,…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Hollis v. . Drew Theological SeminaryNew York Court of Appeals · 1884
- St. John v. Andrews Institute for GirlsNew York Court of Appeals · 1908
- In re Brooklyn Trust Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1917
- In Re the Accounting of DurandNew York Court of Appeals · 1909
3Cited by45 opinions
- In re the Estate of HarrisNew York Surrogate's Court · 1930
- In re the Judicial Settlement of the Account of the Executors of the Estate of BlumenthalNew York Surrogate's Court · 1925
- In re the Estate of MawhinneyNew York Surrogate's Court · 1932
- City National Bank v. AdamsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1929
- In re the Estate of GargiuloNew York Surrogate's Court · 1930
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