Legal Opinion

In re the Estate of Gilman

New York Surrogate's Court

Decided December 18, 1981Published

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION of the court

Millard L. Midonick, J.

The issues before this court embrace many considerations which would tax the ability of any court to clear away the entanglements and debris of more than a decade of internecine in-fighting between two brothers who dominate an enormous privately owned corporation.

*453In this proceeding which commenced in order to impress a constructive trust upon the decedent’s widow’s exercise of her general testamentary power of appointment, so as to equalize and stabilize the control of a large privately held family corporation between the two brothers, sons of the…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. In re Accounting of Lincoln Rochester Trust Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1974
  2. In re the Estate of PottsAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1925
  3. In re the Estate of RothkoNew York Court of Appeals · 1977
  4. In re the Estate of RothkoAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1977
  5. In re the Estate of RothkoNew York Surrogate's Court · 1975

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