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MATTER OF PULITZER

1 Misc.2d 876 (1955)

In the Matter of the Construction of the Will of Joseph Pulitzer, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, New York County.

December 29, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen P. Nash and Mandeville Mullally, Jr., for Herbert Pulitzer and others, as successor trustees under the will of Joseph Pulitzer, deceased, petitioners.

Lillian D. Rock for Kenward G. Elmslie, respondent.

Michael E. Pulitzer, respondent in person.

John F. Keating, special guardian for Thomas R. Quesada and another, infants, respondents.

Edward J. Gould, special guardian for Peter McK. Pulitzer and others, infants, respondents.

COLLINS, S.

This is a proceeding for construction of the will and for advice and directions.

The testator created a trust with a corpus comprised of the stock of the publishing companies of which he had been the proprietor. Its term was measured by the lives of his sons Herbert Pulitzer and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., with the income payable in varying proportions to each of these individuals, to a third son...

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