MATTER OF KNOWLTON


208 Misc. 454 (1955)

In the Matter of the Accounting of Brooklyn Trust Company, as Trustee under The Will of Edwin F. Knowlton, Deceased. In the Matter of the Accounting of City Bank Farmers Trust Company, as Trustee under The Will of Edwin F. Knowlton, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, Kings County.

July 21, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William K. Allison and Harold A. Meriam, Jr., for Brooklyn Trust Company, as trustee, and as guardian of Michael Sierstorpff, an infant, petitioner.

Richmond L. Brown for City Bank Farmers Trust Company, as trustee.

Leonard P. Moore, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York (John W. Wydler, James D. Hill and Irving Jaffe of counsel), and Dallas S. Townsend for Herbert Brownell, Jr., Attorney General of the United States of America, as successor to the Alien Property Custodian.

Samuel Goldstein, special guardian for Michael Sierstorpff, an infant, respondent.

J. Preston Mottur for Constance Sierstorpff and another, respondents.

Halpin, Keogh & St. John for John Baer, respondent.

Herman P. Rosenblatt for Jacob L. Feiner and another, respondents.

Otto C. Sommerich and Benjamin Busch for Paul Hollos and another, respondents.

Edmund W. Bokat and Janet Perlman for Edward P. Levy, respondent.

Harry Krauss for Joseph L. Rosenberg, respondent.

Hodges, Reavis, McGrath, Pantaleoni & Downey for Securities Administration and Trading Company, respondent.


OLLIFFE, Justice of the Supreme Court and Acting Surrogate.

A second compromise agreement has been submitted for approval in these accounting proceedings, the first having been rejected by the court by decision dated December 26, 1950 (200 Misc. 252). No order has been entered on such decision. It was therein held that Edwin and Constance, surviving children of the first marriage...

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