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IRVING TRUST CO. v. DAY

No. 51.

314 U.S. 556 (1942)

IRVING TRUST CO. ET AL., EXECUTORS, ET AL. v. DAY, EXECUTOR.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 5, 1942.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Philip Zierler for the Irving Trust Co. et al., appellants.

Mr. Ralph L. Kaskell, Jr., submitted for Edward McGlone et al., appellants.

Mr. Andrew F. Van Thun, Jr., with whom Mr. George H. Burtis was on the brief, for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE JACKSON delivered the opinion of the Court.

The federal question presented upon this appeal is whether § 18 of the New York Decedent Estate Law works an impairment of the obligation of contract, forbidden by Article I, § 10 of the Constitution, or a deprivation of property without due process, forbidden by the Fourteenth Amendment.

The instrument which appellants claim embodies a contract which...

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