MATTER OF MESSNER


26 A.D.2d 802 (1966)

In the Matter of The Estate of Kathryn G. Messner, Deceased. Jane Muller, Respondent; Philip Wittenberg, as Sole Executor of Kathryn G. Messner, Deceased, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

October 11, 1966


Decree appealed from affirmed, with $50 costs and disbursements to both parties payable out of the estate.

Stevens and Steuer, JJ., dissent and vote to modify in a dissenting memorandum by Stevens, J.

I dissent and vote to modify the decree appealed from so as to eliminate all payments prior to the delivery of the policy. The general rule is that an annuity commences at the date of the testator's death unless the will provides otherwise (Kearney v. Cruikshank...

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