IN RE THOMPSON


53 N.J. 276 (1969)

250 A.2d 393

IN THE MATTER OF THE ACCOUNTING OF GERALDINE L. THOMPSON, LEWIS S. THOMPSON, JR., DECEASED, AND ELISABETH T. BABCOCK, AS TRUSTEES OF THE TRUST ESTABLISHED UNDER PARAGRAPH THIRD OF THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF LEWIS S. THOMPSON, DECEASED.

The Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided February 18, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Arnold B. Levin argued the cause for appellant, Roger Boone (Mr. Donald J. Pappa, of counsel; Mr. Thomas L. Yaccarino, on the brief; Messrs. Pappa, Yaccarino & Widman, attorneys).

Mr. Stuart A. Young, Jr., argued the cause for respondent Peter van Gerbig (Mr. W. Barton Leach, of the Massachusetts Bar, of counsel and on the brief).

Mr. John Warren, Jr., argued the cause for respondent Surviving Successor Trustee, Elisabeth T. Babcock (Mr. John B. Jessup, of the New York Bar, of counsel; Messrs. Parsons, Canzona, Blair & Warren and Messrs. Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts, of the New York Bar, attorneys).

Mr. Henry E. Kordes argued the cause for guardian ad litem.


The opinion of the court was delivered by WEINTRAUB, C.J.

The question is whether a testamentary gift to "lawful issue" of the testator's daughter includes a child adopted by the daughter after the testator's death. The trial court held the adopted child did not take. We granted certification before argument in the Appellate Division.

The will was executed in 1935. The testator died the next year, survived by four...

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