MATTER OF LEVY


36 A.D.2d 709 (1971)

In the Matter of the Accounting of Abraham D. Levy, Public Administrator, as Administrator of The Estate of Julius Korman, Deceased, Respondent. Samuel Bagdorf et al., Appellants; Jacob Nass, as Guardian ad Litem for Unknown Distributees, et al., Respondents

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

March 18, 1971


All of the elements of a valid gift causa mortis of the bankbooks from decedent to objectants, his stepsons, were established by competent, clear, convincing and satisfactory proof. (McKeon v. Van Slyck, 223 N.Y. 392.) Such a gift need not be established beyond all suspicion. (Matter of Pernisi, 285 App. Div. 1006, affd. 1 N.Y.2d 651.) From the witnesses' testimony as to decedent's declarations and the close and intimate...

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