IN RE KATZ' ESTATE


40 N.J. Super. 103 (1956)

122 A.2d 185

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HARRY L. KATZ, DECEASED, AND MINNIE A. KATZ, PLAINTIFF, v. HERBERT H. GORSON AND THE FIDELITY UNION TRUST COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY, EXECUTORS OF HARRY L. KATZ, DEFENDANTS.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division.

Decided April 11, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Herbert H. Gorson, for plaintiffs in estate of Harry L. Katz.

Mr. Charles Danzig (Messrs. Riker, Emery & Danzig, attorneys), for Herbert H. Gorson and Fidelity Union Trust Company, as executors, etc.

Mr. George Warren (Messrs. Warren & Stein, attorneys; Mr. Carl Kisselman and Mr. Daniel DeBrier, of counsel), for Minnie A. Katz.

Mr. Lawrence E. Stern, Deputy Attorney-General (Mr. Grover C. Richman, Jr., Attorney-General), for the State of New Jersey.

Mr. Joseph Tomaselli (Messrs. Malandra & Tomaselli, attorneys), for Marlene D. Katz-Jones.

Mr. James C. Green, guardian ad litem for Harriet Louise Jones, et al.

Mr. Harry Miller (Messrs. Miller & Fishman, attorneys), for Edward and Lillian Margolin and Alfred P. Orleans.

Mr. David M. Perskie (Messrs. Perskie & Perskie, attorneys), for Tisch Hotels, Inc., Ambassador of Atlantic City, Inc., and Preston R. Tisch for Ambassador-Ritz Carlton Properties, a corporation to be formed.

Mr. Harry Cassman (Messrs. Cassman & Gottlieb, attorneys), for The Federation of Jewish Charities of Atlantic City, New Jersey.


HANEMAN, J.S.C.

The above entitled causes were consolidated for trial.

In the matter entitled "Minnie A. Katz v. Herbert H. Gorson, et al." the plaintiff sought generally to establish a contract to execute mutual wills between the plaintiff and her husband, Harry L. Katz, deceased, which said wills had actually been executed. The terms of the alleged mutual wills were entirely different from a subsequent will Harry L. Katz had executed and which had...

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