In re the Estate of Bommer

Wingate, S.

It is fortunately rare that a court is placed in the slightly anomalous and somewhat embarrassing situation inherent in the present litigation.

As a member of the Decedent Estate Commission, upon the recommendation of which section 18 of the Decedent Estate Law was incorporated into the statutes of this State, the court, as an individual, is completely conversant with the motives and purposes which actuated the Commission, and by reason of numerous conferences with legislative leaders in respect to the proposed enactments, and the fact that the recommendations of the Commission were…