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WYATT v. FULRATH

16 N.Y.2d 169 (1965)

Inzer B. Wyatt, as Ancillary Administrator C. T. A. of The Estate of Joaquin Fernandez de Cordova Y Osma, Duque de Arion, Deceased, Appellant, v. Logan Fulrath, Individually and as Executor of Maria de La Luz Mariategui Y Perez de Barradas, Duquesa de Arion, Deceased, Respondent, et al., Defendants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided October 21, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Piel, Jr., and Samuel W. Ingram, Jr., for appellant.

Chester Bordeau for respondent.

Judges DYE, FULD, and BURKE concur with Judge BERGAN; Chief Judge DESMOND dissents in an opinion in which Judges VAN VOORHIS and SCILEPPI concur.

BERGAN, J.

The Duke and Duchess of Arion were nationals and domiciliaries of Spain. Neither of them had ever been in New York, but through a long period of political uncertainty in Spain, from 1919 to the end of the Civil War, they sent cash and securities to New York for safekeeping and investment.

Under the law of Spain this was the community property of the spouses. Substantial parts of it were placed...

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