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In re the Accounting of Brooklyn Trust Co.

302 N.Y. 787 Court N.Y. Decision date 1951-04-13 English

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In the Matter of the Accounting of Brooklyn Trust Company et al., as Trustees under the Will of Euretta J. Schlegel, Deceased, Respondents. Trustees of Columbia University, Appellant; Agnes K. Bower, Individually and as Executrix of Sibyl M. Bower, Deceased, et al., Respondents.
Argued March 1, 1951;
decided April 13, 1951.
p. 789
William J. O’Shea, John Godfrey Saxe and Henry J. Kennedy for appellant.
Nathaniel Rubin and Clarence J. Drake for Agnes K. Bower and others, respondents.

Decree affirmed, with costs to all parties appearing separately and filing separate briefs payable out of the estate. No opinion.

Concur: Loughran, Ch. J., Conway, Fuld and Froessel, JJ.; Lewis, Desmond and Dye, JJ., dissent and vote for reversal in the following memorandum: When the will is read as a whole, it is clear that the testatrix intended a ratable distribution of the remainder of the Sibyl M. Bower trust among the named beneficiaries. (Matter of Low, 232 App. Div. 414 , affd. 257 N. Y. 613 ; Matter of Knickerbocker, 255 App. Div. 309 , affd. 280 N. Y. 560 .)

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