Legal Opinion
In Re Proving the Will of Staiger
New York Court of Appeals
Decided November 20, 1928PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Cardozo, Ch. J.
Wilhelmina Staiger made her will in May, 1923, disinheriting her daughter, and leaving her whole estate, with the exception of some trifling gifts of money, to her two grandchildren. The will could not be found after her death, but a copy was in existence and in the possession of her attorney. The executor there named offered the will for probate under Surrogate’s Court Act, section 143, charging that the will was in existence at the death of the testatrix and had thereafter been fraudulently destroyed. The declarations of the testatrix made only a few days before her death…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- In Re the Probate of the Will of StaigerNew York Court of Appeals · 1926
- Dodd v. . AndersonNew York Court of Appeals · 1910
- In Re the Final Accounting of SelleckNew York Court of Appeals · 1888
- Pittsfield National Bank v. BayneNew York Court of Appeals · 1893
- In re the Judicial Settlement of the Account of HurstAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1906
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3Cited by21 opinions
- In Re Living Trust Created by AtwoodSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1949
- Atwood v. HolmesSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1949
- In re the Accounting of SchneiderNew York Surrogate's Court · 1950
- In re the Probate of the Will of BurkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1958
- In Re the Probate of the Will of ReimersNew York Court of Appeals · 1933
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