MATTER OF GREENFIELD


11 N.Y.2d 747 (1962)

In the Matter of the Construction of the Will of Jacob Greenfield, Deceased. Isidore Greenfield et al., as Executors of Jacob Greenfield, Deceased, et al., Respondents-Appellants; American Medical Center at Denver et al., Appellants; Abraham Greenfield, as Executor of Jacob Greenfield, Deceased, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided February 22, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

I. Meyer Pincus for National Jewish Hospital at Denver, appellant.

Godfrey Goldmark for American Medical Center at Denver, appellant.

Moses H. Hoenig for Diskin Orphan Home of Israel, Inc., appellant.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Tony Berman and Paxton Blair of counsel), as attorney for indefinite charitable beneficiaries, appellant.

Jay Leo Rothschild, Louis Rivkin and Harry L. Staley for Isidore Greenfield and another, respondents-appellants.

Irving Mariash and David Coral for respondent.

Concur: Chief Judge DESMOND and Judges DYE, FULD, FROESSEL, VAN VOORHIS, BURKE and FOSTER.


Order affirmed, with one bill of costs to the three charities, one bill of costs to Isidore and Charles Greenfield, individually, and one bill of costs to Abraham Greenfield, individually, all payable out of the estate...

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