FIDELITY UNION TRUST CO. v. ACKERMAN


18 N.J. Super. 314 (1952)

87 A.2d 47

FIDELITY UNION TRUST COMPANY, A NEW JERSEY CORPORATION, AS TRUSTEE UNDER THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF J. ACKERMAN COLES, DECEASED, PLAINTIFF, v. MARION S. ACKERMAN, JR., ET AL., DEFENDANTS.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division.

Decided February 15, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edward J. Brown for the plaintiff (Messrs. Riker, Emery & Danzig, attorneys).

Mr. Hugo A. Hilgendorff, Jr., for the defendants Marion S. Ackerman, Jr., Warren Ackerman and James Harvey Ackerman.

Mr. Aquila N. Venino for the defendants Richard Crane, Howard Crane and Jean Chambers.

Mr. Herman D. Sorg for the defendants American Baptist Foreign Mission Society and Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (Messrs. Sorg and Sorg, attorneys).

Mr. Elmer F. Holtz for the defendants Newark Orphan Asylum Association, Newark Home for Foster Care, and The Association to Provide and Maintain a Home for the Friendless (Messrs. Smith, Slingerland, Trauth & Holtz, attorneys).

Mr. Archie H. Ormond for the defendant Children's Aid and Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (Messrs. Ormond & Dippel, attorneys).


FREUND, J.S.C.

The plaintiff, trustee under the last will and testament of J. Ackerman Coles, deceased, applies: (a) for instructions respecting the effect of a proposed consolidation of two eleemosynary corporations upon bequests to them as residuary beneficiaries; and (b) for direction to continue to rely upon four final decrees of the Court of Chancery and a judgment of this court entered in actions brought by charitable beneficiaries for permission to use their...

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