MATTER OF KNOWLTON


200 Misc. 252 (1950)

In the Matter of the Accounting of Brooklyn Trust Company, as Trustee under The Will of Edwin F. Knowlton, Deceased. In the Matter of the Accounting of City Bank Farmers Trust Company, as Trustee under The Will of Edwin F. Knowlton, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, Kings County.

December 26, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cullen & Dykman (William K. Allison of counsel), for Brooklyn Trust Company, as trustee, petitioner.

Richmond L. Brown for City Bank Farmers Trust Company, as trustee, petitioner.

J. Vincent Keogh, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York (Albert Parker and David Moses of counsel), for J. Howard McGrath, Attorney General of the United States, as successor to the Alien Property Custodian, and another.

J. Preston Mottur for Edwin von Francken-Sierstorpff and another, respondents.

Samuel Goldstein, special guardian for Michael M. D. Francken-Sierstorpff, an infant, respondent.


RICHARDSON, S.

The present proceedings were instituted by petitions filed by Brooklyn Trust Company and City Bank Farmers Trust Company, respectively, to render and settle their final accounts as trustees of two trusts created under the will of the testator, the late Edwin F. Knowlton, which was duly admitted to probate November 14, 1898. The pertinent provisions of...

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