In re Edson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by Bird S. Coler, comptroller of the city of New York, and James A. Roberts, Comptroller of the State of New York, from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of New'York county, entered in said Surrogate’s Court on the 29th day of July, 1898, modifying an order entered in said Surrogate’s Court on the' 6th day of June, 1898, assessing the transfer tax upon property passing to John E. Parsons under the will of Mary A. Edson, deceased.
1Opinion of the Court
O’Brien, J.:
Mary A. Edson died May 29, 1890, leaving a last will and three codicils in which Messrs. John E. Parsons, John A. Bartow and Charles S. Fairchild were named as executors. By the 8th clause of the will and the oth clause of the second codicil she gave her ulti*20mate residuary estate to Messrs. Parsons, Fairchild and Bartow as tenants in common. • Doubts having arisen as to the effect of various provisions of the will, an action was brought by the executors for a construction, which resulted in a judgment of the Special Term whereby, among other things, it was adjudged: “ The…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Fairchild v. . Edson Edson v. . BartowNew York Court of Appeals · 1897
- In Matter of Petition of Prot. E. Pub. SchoolNew York Court of Appeals · 1881
- Fairchild v. EdsonNew York Supreme Court · 1894
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