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Matter of Muller

Court of Appeals of the State of New York
Dec 31, 1962
187 N.E.2d 477 (N.Y. 1962)

Opinion

Argued December 4, 1962

Decided December 31, 1962

Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the First Judicial Department, JOSEPH A. COX, S.

Daniel G. Tenney, Jr., and John J. Duffy for Chase Manhattan Bank, appellant-respondent.

Henry H. Sternberg, special guardian for infants Carol P. Rigo and others, appellant-respondent.

Samuel Michelman and Robert F. Welch for respondent-appellant.


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

Concur: Chief Judge DESMOND and Judges DYE, FULD, BURKE and FOSTER. Judge FROESSEL dissents and votes to reverse and to reinstate the decree of the Surrogate upon the dissenting opinion at the Appellate Division, and Judge VAN VOORHIS dissents and votes to reverse the order of the Appellate Division and to direct the trustee to allocate all 660 shares of the new $15 par value stock of the Ohio Edison Company to principal, in the following memorandum: In no event, as it seems to me, should more than 63 shares of the new $15 par value stock of Ohio Edison be allocated to income. I think that Matter of Fosdick ( 4 N.Y.2d 646) should be reconsidered and overruled. If any portion is held to be a distribution of income, it should not exceed what would be indicated by the market value of the shares (see article by Dean Niles — 98 Trusts Est. 924, 930).


Summaries of

Matter of Muller

Court of Appeals of the State of New York
Dec 31, 1962
187 N.E.2d 477 (N.Y. 1962)
Case details for

Matter of Muller

Case Details

Full title:In the Matter of the Construction of the Will of HERMAN J. MULLER…

Court:Court of Appeals of the State of New York

Date published: Dec 31, 1962

Citations

187 N.E.2d 477 (N.Y. 1962)
187 N.E.2d 477
236 N.Y.S.2d 627

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