MATTER OF FOLSOM


6 N.Y.2d 886 (1959)

In the Matter of The Estate of Charles S. Folsom, Deceased. Mary Kennelly et al., Appellants-Respondents; Thomas D. Austin et al., Respondents-Appellants; Walter R. Keefe, as Administrator of The Estate of Anna Grimes, Deceased, et al., Respondents. In the Matter of The Estate of Charles S. Folsom, Deceased. T. Francis Reidy et al., Appellants-Respondents; Sarah S. Day et al., Respondents-Appellants; Attorney-General of the State of New York et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided July 8, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth C. Quencer and Joseph F. O'Handley for appellants-respondents in the first above-entitled proceeding.

Thomas D. Austin, Stephen J. Masse and Francis J. Murphy for respondents-appellants in the first above-entitled proceeding.

Arthur F. Gaynor and Charles H. Griffiths for Walter R. Keefe and others, respondents, in the first above-entitled proceeding.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Daniel M. Cohen, Paxton Blair and Julius Greenfield of counsel), for respondent in the first above-entitled proceeding.

Thomas D. Austin, in person, and Francis J. Murphy and Stephen J. Masse for appellants-respondents in the second above-entitled proceeding.

Joseph F. O'Handley and Emil R. Annunziato for respondents-appellants in the second above-entitled proceeding.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Daniel M. Cohen, Paxton Blair and Kenneth D. Shearer of counsel), in person, in the second above-entitled proceeding.

No appearance for Colby M. Austin and others, respondents, in the second above-entitled proceeding.

Concur: Judges DESMOND, DYE, FULD, VAN VOORHIS and BURKE. Chief Judge CONWAY and Judge FROESSEL dissent and vote to modify by striking from the third decretal paragraph of the Surrogate's decree the words "but have no effect" and substituting therefor the word "and", and, as so modified, vote to affirm.


In the first above-entitled proceeding: Order affirmed, with costs to all parties appearing separately and filing separate briefs, payable out of the estate. No opinion.

In the second above-entitled proceeding: Order affirmed, with costs to all parties appearing separately and filing separate briefs, payable out of the estate...

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