Bliss v. Fogg
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from special term, New York' county. Action by George Bliss and others, as executors, against Hiram Fogg and others, to compel the transfer to plaintiffs of certain shares of stock. From a judgment in favor of defendants Charles B. Fosdick and St. John’s Guild (24 N. Y. Supp. 939), plaintiffs and defendants Hiram Fogg, Benjamin Phipps, as ancillary executor, and Mary J. N. Phipps appeal. Reversed.
1Opinion of the CourtO’Brien, J.
This action was brought to compel the transfer to plaintiffs of 1,000 shares of the capital stock of the Gutta-Percha & Rubber Manufacturing Company, once the property of Elizabeth Fogg, plaintiffs’ testatrix, but assigned by her to the defendant Fosdick. Defendant Fosdick answered, setting up that the stock was transferred to him by the plaintiffs’ testatrix, in trust, to divide among certain charitable institutions. The other defendants are Mrs. Fogg’s residuary legatees, and charitable institutions, which, except St. John’s Guild, are beneficiaries under a codicil to decedent’s will which…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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