Legal Opinion
In re Estate of Leikind
New York Court of Appeals
Decided June 14, 1968PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBreitel, J.
Petitioner appeals, and the Attorney-General cross-appeals, from an order of the Appellate Division, which reversed in a memorandum opinion (one Justice dissenting), a decree of the Surrogate’s Court, Kings County, declining to release certain impounded funds. Involved is the effect of former section 269-a of the Surrogate’s Court Act (now SOPA 2218), which provided that where the beneficiary of a decedent estate ‘ ‘ would not have the benefit or use or control of the money or other property due him,” such property is to be paid into court ‘1 for the benefit of [such beneficiary] or such…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- In re the Accounting of GreenNew York Court of Appeals · 1953
- Commission for Polish Relief, Ltd. v. Banca Nationala a RumanieiNew York Court of Appeals · 1942
- Dunlop v. . Patterson Fire Insurance Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1878
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3Cited by15 opinions
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- Goldstein v. CoxDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1968
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