MATTER OF CRYSTAL


39 N.Y.2d 934 (1976)

In the Matter of The Estate of Max Crystal, Deceased. Jerome M. Crystal, as Executor of Max Crystal, Deceased, et al., Respondents; Helen Crystal, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 17, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Handelman and Robert M. Trien for appellant.

Bernard Sherl for petitioner-respondent.

Maurice Shire and Morton M. Bass for Irene Zisfein, respondent.

Chief Judge BREITEL and Judges JASEN, JONES, FUCHSBERG and COOKE concur in memorandum; Judge WACHTLER dissents and votes to reverse in a separate opinion in which Judge GABRIELLI concurs.


MEMORANDUM.

Order of the Appellate Division affirmed, with costs to all parties filing separate briefs payable out of the estate.

The four agreements between decedent and others, including corporations with which he had been associated in his lifetime, providing for the installment purchase of his shares of stock in the close corporations and for specified retirement benefits...

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