IN RE ESTATE OF ROGERS


15 N.J. Super. 189 (1951)

83 A.2d 268

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HENRY WELSH ROGERS, DECEASED.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Essex County Court Probate Division.

Decided August 14, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Mills, Jeffers and Mountain (Mr. Horace C. Jeffers appearing), for Morristown Trust Company and Reconstruction Home, Inc.

Mr. Alfred C. Clapp, for Josephine Chesney Sorensen and Robert Freund, individually and as executors of the probated will of Henry Welsh Rogers, deceased, and Robert Freund, as sole trustee under said will.

Messrs. Stryker, Tams and Horner (Mr. Emory C. Risley appearing), for the intervenor, the trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.

Mr. Charles B. Alling, for the intervenor, the trustees of Princeton University.


NAUGHRIGHT, J.C.C.

Morristown Trust Company, as executor and trustee under a purported will of decedent, Henry Welsh Rogers, and Reconstruction Home, Inc., as a beneficiary thereunder, apply to this court on notice of motion for an order to show cause why the judgment of the surrogate admitting to probate a later will and codicil of said decedent should not be set aside.

On return of the motion the executors and trustee under the probated will and codicil...

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