MATTER OF ROBBINS


144 Misc.2d 510 (1989)

In the Matter of The Estate of Simone Robbins, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, New York County.

June 26, 1989


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cadwalader, Wichersham & Taft (Cynthia A. Smith of counsel), for Edward D. Robinson and another, petitioners. Debora L. Jacques for Roger Schwartz and another, petitioners. Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Laura Werner of counsel), for ultimate charitable beneficiaries. Cahill Gordon & Reindel (John R. Young and Joan Murtagh Frankel of counsel), for Jacques Robbins, respondent. Satterlee, Stephens, Burke & Burke (Robert M. Callagy of counsel), for Claude Delibes, respondent. Windels, Marx, Davies & Ives (Robert D. Taisey, Jeffrey S. Levin and Keelin Kavanagh of counsel), for Cornell University and another, respondents.


MARIE M. LAMBERT, S.

In proceedings to settle an intermediate account of the decedent's executors and to construe the decedent's will, this court has been asked to resolve two issues that have arisen during the administration of this estate. The first involves a review of article FIFTEENTH of the decedent's will, intended to be an in terrorem clause, requiring a determination of whether bequests to the...

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