MATTER OF ROLSTON


44 Misc.2d 298 (1964)

In the Matter of The Estate of Louis B. Rolston, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, Westchester County.

November 4, 1964


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dillon & O'Brien (Herbert C. Pentz and James McGarry of counsel), for petitioner and for Jean R. Peacock and another, as executors of Alexander R. Peacock, deceased, respondents. Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (George J. Wallace and Gustave J. Soderberg, Jr., of counsel), for ultimate charitable beneficiaries, respondent. Lord, Day & Lord (Sherman Baldwin and James N. Corbridge, Jr., of counsel), for New York Botanical Garden, respondent. Sullivan & Cromwell (John H. Higgs of counsel), for Cornell University, respondent. Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle (Constable MacCracken of counsel), for Mary J. Rolston and others, respondents. Miller, Montgomery & Spaulding for New York University, respondent. Abraham M. Stanger, special guardian.


HARRY G. HERMAN, S.

The questions presented in this proceeding by the sole surviving trustee to settle her intermediate accounts are: (1) whether the remainder interest of testator's grandson in the article "TENTH (a)" trust was divested by the grandson's predeceasing the life tenant of the trust; and (2) whether the grandson validly exercised the power of appointment conferred by article "TENTH (c)" of the...

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