MATTER OF BROOKS


14 Misc.2d 425 (1958)

In the Matter of the Final Accounting of United States Trust Company of New York, as Trustee under a Deed of Trust Made by Josephine Brooks, Deceased.

Supreme Court, Special Term, New York County.

September 26, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Duer, Strong & Whitehead for petitioner.

Harman Hawkins (Charles F. Houghton and Ernest D. Fiore, Jr., of counsel), for Gladys B. Thayer and another.

Debevoise, Plimpton & McLean (Charles I. Pierce, Jr., of counsel), for Raquel Quinn, as executrix of Reginald L. Brooks, deceased, respondent.

Hubbell & Davis (Emerson F. Davis and Charles R. Van De Walle of counsel), for Orwill V. W. Hawkins and another, as executors of Reginald Brooks, deceased.


EDGAR J. NATHAN, JR., J.

This is a proceeding for the settlement of the account of a trustee. The trust having terminated, the court is called upon to construe the trust instrument and to determine who is entitled to the distribution of the remaining principal.

By this agreement, dated December 12, 1919, the settlor, Josephine Brooks, established a trust for her son, Reginald Brooks, for his life. Upon...

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