Rochester Trust & Safe Deposit Co. v. Brown
New York Supreme Court
Motion on behalf of the defendant Chapin Brown, to vacate an injunction, restraining him from taking further proceedings in the Surrogate’s Court of Steuben county, to compel the plaintiff executors to account to and deliver to him, in his representative capacity, certain personal property.
1Opinion of the CourtStephens, J.
Rosabel Skinner died February 26, 1910, leaving a last will and testament by which she gave all her property to her husband, Arthur T. Skinner, and appointed Him executor thereof; besides her husband the defendant left her surviving as her only heirs and next of kin, a brother, W. Frank McLean, plaintiffs’ testator, and the defendant Katherine E. Haines, a sister, Preston Wright, a nephew, and Nancy Wright, a niece; there were also living at the time of her death, Eva I. McLean, the wife of W. Frank, and the latter’s children, George V. and the plaintiff Kathleen McLean Russell, and Arthur,…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Rastetter v. . HoenningerNew York Court of Appeals · 1915
- Reynolds v. . RobinsonNew York Court of Appeals · 1876
- Hermann v. LudwigAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1919
- In re Proving the Last Will & Testament of HermannAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1917
- Hermann v. . LudwigNew York Court of Appeals · 1920
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