Legal Opinion
In re the Estate of Stiemes
New York Surrogate's Court
Decided January 26, 1934PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Feely, S.
On this judicial settlement doubts have arisen as to just what testatrix meant by two phrases in her last will dated July 11, 1931. Having some familiarity with legal phraseology, she drafted this will for herself. After several bequests of money, testatrix by the eleventh paragraph gave to her two sisters named, to be equally divided between them, “ all my household furniture, bedding, linens, wearing apparel, and all my personal effects; ” and by the twelfth paragraph she devised and bequeathed all the rest, residue and remainder of “ my property, both real and personal, of every…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- In Re the Accounting of TamargoNew York Court of Appeals · 1917
- In re the Probate of the Last Will & Testament of DelaneyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1909
- In Re the Final Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of ReynoldsNew York Court of Appeals · 1891
- Barney v. MaySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1917
- In re GardnerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1926
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3Cited by15 opinions
- In Re Estate of StengelMissouri Court of Appeals · 1977
- In re the Will of BurnsideNew York Surrogate's Court · 1945
- In re the Construction of the Will of MaurerNew York Surrogate's Court · 1948
- In re the Accounting of MinnissNew York Surrogate's Court · 1951
- In re the Construction of the Will of MichaelsonNew York Surrogate's Court · 1949
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