Legal Opinion
American Committee for Weizmann Institute of Science v. Dunn
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided January 4, 2007PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Surrogate’s Court, New York County (Eve Preminger, S.), entered on or about December 14, 2005, which granted respondents’ motion to deny the petition to vacate the probate decree or for turnover of property under SCPA 2105, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Granting petitioner every presumption applicable to a preanswer motion to dismiss, the petition failed to plead a claim sounding in undue influence. Nothing in the record can be taken as a pleading that respondents exercised “moral coercion, which restrained independent action and destroyed free agency, or which, by importunity…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- In re the Probate of the Will of WaltherNew York Court of Appeals · 1959
- In Re the Estate of KumstarNew York Court of Appeals · 1985
- Children's Aid Society v. . LoveridgeNew York Court of Appeals · 1877
- Rubin v. Irving Trust Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1953
- In re the Probate of the Will of KaufmannAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1964
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3Cited by4 opinions
- American Committee for Weizmann Institute of Science v. DunnNew York Court of Appeals · 2008
- In re the Estate of PrevratilAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2014
- In re the Estate of PrevratilAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2014
- MatterofPrevratilAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2014