Legal Opinion

Schweizer v. Schweizer

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided July 6, 1959Published

1Opinion of the Court

Plaintiffs brought this action to enforce specific performance of certain provisions of a joint and mutual will in which they were the designated beneficiaries. In March, 1938 William Schweizer and his wife Josephine Schweizer entered into an agreement executed in the form of a mutual and joint will in which plaintiffs, the only grandchildren of the parties were the designated beneficiaries upon the death of the survivor. In August, 1939 the parties executed a codicil which ratified and confirmed the March, 1938 will, but merely changed the executor and trustee. The wife died in 1948. The…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Rastetter v. . HoenningerNew York Court of Appeals · 1915
  2. Tutunjian v. VetzigianNew York Court of Appeals · 1949
  3. Schweizer v. SchweizerNew York Supreme Court · 1959

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