MATTER OF WARD


14 Misc.2d 903 (1958)

In the Matter of the Intermediate Accounting of Stevenson E. Ward, Jr., et al., as Trustees under the Will of May S. Ward, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, Westchester County.

December 8, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bleakley, Platt, Gilchrist & Walker (Thomas B. Gilchrist, Jr., of counsel), for petitioners.

Morris E. Lasker, special guardian for Anne Ward.

Thomas F. Croake, special guardian for Grace Ward and others.


JOHN J. DILLON, S.

In this accounting proceeding, the court is asked to determine whether Anne Ward, an adopted child of the decedent's son, James A. Ward, is entitled to share in the remainder of the residuary trust created by article "FOURTH" of the will.

The will was executed in 1943. By article "FOURTH" the testatrix left her residuary estate in three separate trusts for the benefit of her three children for life, and provided that "upon the...

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