MATTER OF MORDECAI


24 Misc.2d 668 (1960)

In the Matter of Dorothy Mordecai.

Supreme Court, Special Term, New York County.

April 7, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gitlin & Wiesen (Mark Barret Wiesen of counsel), for Dorothy Mordecai, petitioner. Cardozo & Cardozo (Benjamin M. Cardozo of counsel), for First National City Trust Company and another, as trustees, respondents. Francis L. Valente, Jr., as guardian ad litem for Benjamin Mordecai, an infant.


JACOB MARKOWITZ, J.

This is an application by the settlor of an inter vivos trust who is also the beneficiary thereunder to compel revocation and surrender of the corpus.

The trust was created in November, 1955 shortly after the settlor inherited a considerable sum of money as the result of the termination, by her father's death, of two trusts, one inter vivos and one testamentary created by her grandfather. The settlor agreed to...

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