In Re the Accounting of Baldwin
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered May 23, 1913, which affirmed a decree of the Westchester County Surrogate’s Court settling the accounts of Anson Baldwin as trustee under the will of Abijah Curtiss, deceased.
1Opinion of the CourtChase, J.
The appellants urge that certain shares of the stock of a corporation, which were delivered to the trustee herein as a part of a stock dividend of said corporation amounting in the aggregate to $900,000 upon shares of stock held by the testator at the time of his death and since held by the trustee in certain trusts under the will of the testator, were erroneously awarded by the decree of the surrogate to the life beneficiaries under the trusts.
The stock dividend of $900,000 was a division of a part of the accumulated earnings of the corporation amounting on September 20,1910, the date of the…
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