MATTER OF HERZOG


301 N.Y. 127 (1950)

In the Matter of Angela S. Morgan, as Guardian of the Person of Lewis McC. Herzog, Jr., an Infant, Appellant and Respondent. United States Trust Company of New York, Respondent. In the Matter of Angela S. Morgan, as Guardian of the Person of Angela R. Herzog, an Infant, Appellant and Respondent. United States Trust Company of New York, Respondent. Angela S. Morgan, Respondent and Appellant, v. Lewis McC. Herzog, Sr., Third-Party Appellant and Respondent, and Seymour Graubard, as Guardian ad Litem for Lewis McC. Herzog, Jr., and Another, Third-Party Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 1, 1950


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sol Pottish and Harry L. Ettinger for Lewis McC. Herzog, Sr., third-party appellant and respondent.

Ambrose V. McCall and Eugene L. Garey for Angela S. Morgan, respondent and appellant.

Seymour Graubard, third-party respondent in person.

James J. Mennis for United States Trust Company of New York, respondent.

CONWAY, FULD and FROESSEL, JJ., concur with DYE, J.; DESMOND, J., dissents in opinion in which LOUGHRAN, Ch. J., and LEWIS, J., concur.


DYE, J.

In this proceeding, which is here on cross appeals, we are to construe the payment provisions of two trust indentures executed by the settlor, Lewis McComb Herzog, Sr., coincident with an agreement of separation entered into between him and his then wife, Angela Stevenson Morgan, petitioner-appellant. The trust indentures bear even date, are identical in terms and were created for the purpose of securing...

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