IN RE ESTATE OF PFIZER


6 N.J. 233 (1951)

78 A.2d 80

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF EMILE PFIZER, DECEASED. THE NEW YORK ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND, CITY OF NEW YORK, BELLEVUE HOSPITAL (DEPARTMENT OF HOSPITALS, CITY OF NEW YORK), GOUVERNEUR HOSPITAL (DEPARTMENT OF HOSPITALS, CITY OF NEW YORK) and MARIEN-HEIM OF BROOKLYN AND ASSOCIATION FOR THE AID OF CRIPPLED CHILDREN, RESPONDENTS, v. ALBERT A. TEETER AND NATIONAL CITY BANK OF NEW YORK, EXECUTORS OF THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF EMILE PFIZER, DECEASED, AND WILLIAM HUCK, JR., APPELLANTS.

The Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Reargued December 18, 1950.

Decided January 15, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Thomas J. Markey argued the cause for the appellants.

Mr. Harrison F. Durand argued the cause for the respondent Sydney G. Soons.

Mr. Herman G. Vorburger argued the cause for the other respondents (Messrs. Hopkins, Vorburger & Dickson, attorneys).


The opinion of the court was delivered by OLIPHANT, J.

This appeal, here by certification to the Appellate Division, is from a judgment of that court which modified a judgment of the Somerset County Court, Probate Division, dated November 18, 1949, which settled the final accounting of the executors of the estate of Emile Pfizer and allowed commissions to the executors, and counsel fees. On December 28 and 29, 1949, the respondents...

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