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MATTER OF HALL

32 Misc.2d 176 (1962)

In the Matter of The Estate of Elizabeth Hall, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, Nassau County.

January 17, 1962

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank & E. Geo. Lawkins for petitioner and trustee. W. Wesley Hill for Richard Chapman, as executor of Marion M. Hall, deceased. Thomas L. Driscoll, as special guardian for "Jane" Bedell, an alleged incompetent. Louis C. Kaiser for Brooklyn Methodist Episcopal Church Home wherein Ida May Hall is a member. Bertram Harnett, County Attorney, for Board of Public Welfare.

JOHN D. BENNETT, S.

In this accounting proceeding a construction of the will is required.

By paragraph Fifth of the will, the testatrix directed that the remainder of the $10,000 trust fund "be divided among the nearest relatives on my former husband's side, WILLIAM JONAS HALL, and the nearest relatives on my side, then living". Although the subsequently executed codicil attempts to clarify the intention...

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