de Caumont v. Bogert
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from a decree of the surrogate of the county of New York, made upon the final accounting of Mary J. Morgan, as ■executrix of the will of Charles Morgan, deceased.
1Opinion of the Court
Daniels, J.:
The appeal has been taken on behalf of grandchildren and great grandchildren of the testator, Charles Morgan, who died on the 8th ■day of May, 1878. It was urged before the surrogate, and has been in like manner upon the hearing of the appeal, that the executrix ■should have been charged in her account with 30,000 shares of the stock of Morgan’s Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Company. The surrogate rejected this claim, and whether he was right in doing so depends in a large degree, if not wholly, upon the legality of the formal transfers of these shares to his widow,…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Burrall v. . Bushwick Railroad CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1878
- Fisher v. . HallNew York Court of Appeals · 1869
- Robinson v. . National Bank of New BerneNew York Court of Appeals · 1884
- Lawrence v. . LindsayNew York Court of Appeals · 1877
- Armitage v. . MacENew York Court of Appeals · 1884
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