FEDERAL TRUST CO. v. WALSH


20 N.J. Super. 542 (1952)

90 A.2d 119

FEDERAL TRUST COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY, AS SURVIVING TRUSTEE UNDER THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF PHILIP C. WALSH, JR., DECEASED, PLAINTIFF, v. MARY E. WALSH, ET ALS., DEFENDANTS.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division.

Decided June 23, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Lindabury, Steelman & Lafferty (Mr. William Rowe appearing), attorneys for plaintiff.

Mr. John J. Bracken and Messrs. Crummy & Consodine, attorneys for defendants Mary E. Walsh, et als.

Messrs. Tepper, Tepper and Verney, attorneys for defendant Murray Schwartz as trustee in bankruptcy and assignee of William J. Walsh.

Messrs. McCarter, English & Studer, attorneys for defendant The National Iron Bank as sole surviving trustee, etc.

Messrs. Smith, Slingerland, Trauth & Holtz, attorneys for defendant Walter S. Sheafer, executor of the last will and testament of Paul Sheafer, deceased.


STEIN, J.S.C.

This is an action to construe Article Sixth of the will of Philip C. Walsh, Jr., executed January 19, 1916, and on his death, October 28, 1922, admitted to probate November 10, 1922. The plaintiff is the surviving executor and trustee, its co-fiduciary, William H. Walsh, surviving brother of the testator, qualified and continued in office until his death September 12, 1932.

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