Legal Opinion
In re the Estate of Black
New York Surrogate's Court
Decided January 21, 1942PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Foley, S.
In this executors’ accounting a creditor holding a bond secured by a mortgage seeks to recover from this estate the full amount due under the bond a.nd mortgage.
This decedent and his brother, Henry V. D, Black, owned a valuable parcel of real property in lower Manhattan as joint tenants. In 1904 the joint tenants executed a mortgage on this property and simultaneously executed a bond in the sum of $290,000 for which the mortgage was security. Through amortization payments the mortgage debt has been reduced to $211,190.06, the amount of the claim now asserted.
This decedent died on…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- In Re the Accounting of SchorerNew York Court of Appeals · 1936
- In Re the Accounting of NicholsNew York Court of Appeals · 1940
3Cited by5 opinions
- In re the Accounting of NickersonNew York Surrogate's Court · 1944
- In re the Accounting of Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co.New York Surrogate's Court · 1945
- In re the Estate of RunalsNew York Surrogate's Court · 1972
- In re the Accounting of MeyersNew York Surrogate's Court · 1952
- In re the Accounting of RafteryAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1955