Legal Opinion

In re the Final Judicial Settlement of the Account of Proceedings of Douglass

New York Surrogate's Court

Decided June 30, 1923Published

1Opinion of the Court

Slater, S.

The court in admitting the will of the above-named decedent to probate held to be void paragraphs “ second,” “ third,” “ fourth ” and the appointment of Lizzie C. Douglass as executrix in paragraph “ seventh.” The court is now asked to construe said will as to the distribution of the estate.

Elizabeth C. Douglass, the mother, predeceased the testatrix *289and Mary C. Odell survived the testatrix about four months with the result • that the brother, Forster W. Douglass, and the sister, Lizzie C. Douglass, each became entitled to one-third of the estate, with the other one-third being…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. In Re the Accounting of BuechnerNew York Court of Appeals · 1919
  2. In Re the Appraisal Under the Transfer Tax Acts of the Property of KimberlyNew York Court of Appeals · 1896
  3. In re the Construction of Will of HuntNew York Surrogate's Court · 1921

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