MATTER OF VAN AKEN


5 Misc.2d 545 (1957)

In the Matter of the Construction of the Will of Harry H. Van Aken, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, Ulster County.

May 8, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter E. Flannery for the executors and trustees of Harry H. Van Aken, deceased.

John Parkhurst Booth for estate of Elizabeth V. A. Bocher, deceased.

Gerald Blumberg and Charles Koozman for Simeon Wolfman, as assignee of Josephine L. Kircheval.

John J. Schick for Frances L. Van Aken and others.


CHARLES H. GAFFNEY, S.

The petitioners are executors and trustees under the last will and testament of Harry H. Van Aken, deceased, which was duly admitted to probate by this court on August 1, 1955. They seek a construction of paragraph FOURTH of said will which reads as follows:

FOURTH: I give, devise and bequeath that part of the farm and land owned by me in the Town of Esopus, Ulster County, New...

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