Stockert v. Dry Dock Savings Institution
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeals by the plaintiff, Sara E. Stockert, from two judgments of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 8 th day of July, 1912, upon the decision of the court rendered after • a trial at the New York Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
These appeals present a question as to “Savings Banks Trusts.”
The creator of the trusts was one Letitia Eiley Grogan, the wife of one William Grogan, to whom she had been married about ten years. She was, in 1909, about eighty years of age, and very illiterate and penurious. She had, by some means or other, acquired, for a woman of her class, considerable property.
She had on deposit in the Seaman’s Bank for Savings $615.50; in the Bowery Savings Bank under her maiden name of Letitia Eiley, $926.26; in the Dry Dock Savings Bank, $2,034.58, and in the Bank for Savings, $2,141.24. She…
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- Tierney v. . FitzpatrickNew York Court of Appeals · 1909
- In re the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Proceedings of the United States Trust Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907
- In re the Appraisal of Estate of PierceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1909
- Kelly v. . BeersNew York Court of Appeals · 1909
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