In Re the Accounting of King
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered December 10, 1909, which affirmed a decree of the Orange County Surrogate’s Court settling the accounts of Rufus King as executor of Margaret King, deceased.
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered December 10, 1909, which affirmed a decree of the Orange County Surrogate’s Court settling the accounts of Rufus King as executor of Margaret King, deceased. One Margaret King died in July, 1906, leaving a last will and testament dated the 30th day of March, 1876, which was admitted to probate in the Surrogate’s Court of Orange county on the 17th day of July, 1906. Letters testamentary were thereupon issued to Rufus King who was nominated in the will as executor. In this will the…
1Opinion of the CourtWerner, J.
It has been justly observed by some jurist possessed of philosophical perception “ that no will has a twin brother.” This sage epigram points directly at the difficulties encountered by .courts in trying to construe wills in the light of authority. These troubles are nowhere more cogently illustrated than in Mr. Jarman’s Standard Treatise on the Law of Wills, where one may find authority for almost any proposition which the exigencies of a given case may suggest or demand. Yet, despite this confusion, which is the natural, if not the inevitable, outgrowth of efforts to apply the law to a…
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