MATTER OF SLADE


208 Misc. 409 (1955)

In the Matter of the Construction of The Will of Bertha C. Slade, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, New York County.

May 25, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Satterlee, Warfield & Stephens for Ethelbert Warfield, as executor of Bertha C. Slade, deceased, petitioner.

Peter H. Kaminer and John B. Jessup for Northern Westchester Hospital, respondent and cross petitioner.

Mark P. Stumpf for St. Matthews Church, respondent and cross petitioner.

Leonard A. Blue, Harold F. Lewis and B. Harrison Frankel for Society of the New York Hospital, respondent and cross petitioner.

Colton P. Wagner, R. Preston Searl and William G. F. Botzow for District Nursing Association of Northern Westchester County, respondent and cross petitioner.

James T. Buckley for Presbyterian Hospital in the City of New York, respondent and cross petitioner.

Charles I. Pierce, Jr., for President and Fellows of Harvard College, respondent and cross petitioner.

Gerdes & Montgomery for Laura S. Mills and another, respondents.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison for Helen C. McCabe and another, respondents.

Joseph J. Kozinn for State Tax Commission, respondent.


COLLINS, S.

This proceeding for construction of the will and for instructions as to the apportionment of taxes under section 124 of the Decedent Estate Law was instituted on the petition of the executor. Answers incorporating prayers for supplemental relief were filed by a number of charitable institutions who share in the residuary estate as well as by individuals who have similar interests under the will. These...

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