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MATTER OF TURTON

8 N.Y.2d 311 (1960)

In the Matter of Robert S. Turton, Deceased. Government of British Honduras, Appellant; Harold A. Penso et al., Respondents. (Two Other Proceedings.)

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided October 21, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Franklin M. Desser and Bernard B. Smith for appellant.

George H. Schwartz, Joseph T. Arenson, Samuel Spiegel, Waldemar J. Dittmar, George S. Goldberg and Maxwell J. Eile for respondents other than the Attorney-General.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Daniel M. Cohen, Paxton Blair and Tony Berman of counsel), for Attorney-General of the State of New York, respondent.

Judges DYE, FROESSEL and FOSTER concur with Judge VAN VOORHIS. Judge BURKE dissents in an opinion in which Chief Judge DESMOND concurs in a separate opinion and in each of which Judge FULD concurs.

VAN VOORHIS, J.

The Government of British Honduras, a Crown Colony of Great Britain, standing in treaty relations with the United States in all that concerns the right of disposing of every kind of property, real or personal, has moved to intervene specially in proceedings pending in the Surrogate's Court of New York County for the probate of an alleged last will and testament dated November 12, 1955. Domiciled...

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