Opinion
Argued March 15, 1948
Decided April 22, 1948
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, DELEHANTY, S.
Thomas A. Ryan for appellants.
Albert W. Meisel for Hopewell Society of Brooklyn et al., respondents.
George W. Martin, Richard S. Emmet, John L. Merrill, Jr., and Eunice M. O'Neill for Bank of New York, respondent.
Albert R. George for Violet Tangeman Cottrell, respondent.
Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney-General ( P. Hodges Combier and Wendell P. Brown of counsel), for unknown beneficiaries, respondent. James N. Vaughan and Jeremiah P. Lyons for Bank of New York, respondent.
Peter Keber, C. Alexander Capron and Albert B. Maginnes for State Bankers Association, amicus curiae, in support of respondents' position.
Order affirmed, with costs to all parties appearing separately and filing separate briefs payable out of the fund; no opinion.
Concur: LOUGHRAN, Ch. J., LEWIS, CONWAY, DESMOND, THACHER, DYE and FULD, JJ.