BANKERS TRUST COMPANY v. HESS


2 N.J. Super. 308 (1949)

63 A.2d 712

BANKERS TRUST COMPANY, EXECUTOR UNDER THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF ELSIE CABLE HESS DECEASED, PLAINTIFF, v. JOHN LAURIE HESS, ET ALS., DEFENDANTS.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division.

Decided January 20, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Hobart, Minard & Cooper (Mr. John J. Gaffey) for the plaintiff.

Mr. William A. Kaufmann, for the defendants John Laurie Hess, Barbara Halenbeck Hess and Barbara H. Patrono, and pro se as guardian ad litem for infant Laurie A. Patrono.

Messrs. Stryker, Tams & Horner (Mr. Emory C. Risley) for the defendant Dorothy H. Bigler.

Messrs. Osborne, Cornish & Scheck, for the defendant Bonnie Brae Farm for Boys.


FREUND, J.S.C.

The plaintiff seeks instructions respecting certain matters which have arisen in the administration of the estate of Elsie Cable Hess, who died on June 20, 1947, a resident of Essex County. Her will, dated May 18, 1943, and two codicils thereto, dated June 30, 1944 and June 28, 1945, were probated. On the same day that the will was executed, she entered into a revocable inter vivos trust agreement...

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