MATTER OF VALENTINE


276 A.D. 1097 (1950)

In the Matter of the Accounting of Josephine S. Valentine et al., as Executors of Rudolph H. E. Gudewill, Deceased, Respondents. Walter Forsberg, Appellant; Elsa M. Tscherne et al., Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

April 17, 1950.


In our opinion the description of the property sought to be devised by that provision of the will was so uncertain as to leave in doubt the subject of disposition, and extrinsic evidence was properly received to explain to what land the language used referred; and, upon the whole record, the construction thereof stated in that portion of the decree from which appeal is taken is correct. (Matter of Phipps, 214 N.Y. 378, 381...

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