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MATTER OF FAIRCHILD

15 Misc.2d 272 (1958)

In the Matter of the Construction of the Will of Clarence A. Fairchild, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, Queens County.

September 12, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sowers, Herrick & Black for Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, petitioner.

Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Hadley for New York Community Trust.

Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood for Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases.

Rathgeber, Roman & Murphy for Protestant Reformed Church of Flushing.

Shattuck, Bangs & Davis for Dorothy DeM. Coleman.

Cadwalder, Wickersham & Taft for Gladys Elkin.

Emmet, Marvin & Martin for Leake and Watts Children's Home, Inc.

Louis Lefkowitz, Attorney-General, for charitable beneficiaries.

ANTHONY P. SAVARESE, S.

The questions propounded by the executor under the last will and testament of Clarence A. Fairchild, deceased, in this construction proceeding are answered as follows:

Questions 1 and 2: Paragraph "SIXTH" of the will provides that after the payment of all debts and expenses, the residuary estate should be divided into 50 parts. One part was bequeathed to the Hopewell Society,...

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