MATTER OF ROCKEFELLER


28 Misc.2d 335 (1961)

In the Matter of the Deed of Trust Dated July 3, 1917 made by John D. Rockefeller [Hubbard].

Supreme Court, Special Term, New York County.

March 15, 1961


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Hadley (William Eldred Jackson and Paul C. Lambert of counsel), for Chase Manhattan Bank, petitioner as successor trustee under deed of trust. Sullivan & Cromwell, David W. Peck, Martin D. Heyert and Shirley Anne O'Neill for Catherine N. Dwyer and others, as executors of Muriel McCormick Hubbard, and for Catherine N. Dwyer, as testamentary guardian in Connecticut and ancillary guardian in New York of John Rockefeller McCormick Hubbard and others. Leon Leighton, guardian ad litem for John Rockefeller McCormick Hubbard and others. Davis Polk Wardwell Sunderland & Kiendl, Ralph M. Carson, John C. Hover, J. Dormer Cannon, James A. Thomas, Jr., and Samuel N. Allen for Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, Inc. Kelley, Drye, Newhall & Maginess, H. Thomas Kilburn, Jr., for Juilliard School of Music. Duer & Taylor (John S. Chapman, Jr., and John F. Woods of counsel), for Bennett College. Debevoise, Plimpton & McLean for Charles McCormick Hardin and another. Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Julius Greenfield of counsel), for uncertain and indefinite charitable beneficiaries.


ARTHUR MARKEWICH, J.

Petitioner trustee, here submitting a final accounting under article 79 of the Civil Practice Act asks, in effect, for affirmance of the action of a committee designated in the trust instrument as administrator of certain aspects thereof; the trust instrument provided, insofar as it relates to the situation before the court, that, on the death of the last beneficiary, the settlor's granddaughter...

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