Decree, insofar as appealed from, affirmed, with costs to the respondents filing separate briefs, payable out of the estate.
Paragraph fourteenth of the will gives the residue of decedent's estate to her executrix "to be divided or used for any and all charities that she in her uncontrolled discretion may deem it best and fitting." In our opinion, such disposition constitutes a valid charitable bequest (Matter of Cunningham, 206 N.Y. 601, and cases there cited...
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