MATTER OF FORD


19 Misc.2d 429 (1959)

In the Matter of the Final Accounting of Bankers Trust Company et al., as Trustees under the Will of Simeon Ford, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, Westchester County.

March 18, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

White & Case for petitioners.

Harold R. Brophy for Consuelo U. Ford, respondent.

Livermore & Lanier for respondents.

Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett for Yale University, respondent.

Mudge, Stern, Baldwin & Todd for New York Founding Hospital, respondent.

Abberley, Kooiman & Amon for Quinton Ford, respondent.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General, for State of New York.

Joseph G. Saile, as special guardian, respondent.


JOHN J. DILLON, S.

The trustees in connection with their final account seek a construction of article "FIFTH (a)" of the will for the purpose of determining the disposition to be made of the corpus of the trust created thereby. That portion of said article "FIFTH (a)" relevant to the problem is quoted as follows: "If upon the death of said Ellsworth Ford, Consuello Ford shall then be deceased or if living shall...

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