Legal Opinion
In re the Estate of Weinberg
New York Surrogate's Court
Decided May 10, 1937PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Wingate, S.
It is extremely improbable that when the learned judges of the Court of Appeals sought, by their decision in Matter of Totten (179 N. Y. 112), to bring order out of the semi-chaos of *868previous pronouncements respecting the effect of so-called savings bank “trusts,” that they possessed prophetic vision sufficient to enable them to foresee that the results of their opinion would be to revolutionize devolutionary technique among an appreciable proportion of the community and supply a new avenue of attempted escape from the primary obligations of citizenship and fair dealing.
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2Cases cited25 opinions
- In Re the Accounting of TottenNew York Court of Appeals · 1904
- Blood v. . KaneNew York Court of Appeals · 1892
- Gilman v. . McArdleNew York Court of Appeals · 1885
- Bate v. . GrahamNew York Court of Appeals · 1854
- McQuaide v. . PerotNew York Court of Appeals · 1918
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3Cited by13 opinions
- United States v. The State National Bank Of ConnecticutCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1970
- In re the Estate of SkuseNew York Surrogate's Court · 1937
- In re the Estate of KenneyNew York Surrogate's Court · 1939
- In re the Estate of St. JohnNew York Surrogate's Court · 1937
- In re the Estate of CaplanNew York Surrogate's Court · 1949
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