Argued October 5, 1917 Decided November 13, 1917 Henry Donnelly for Frank H. Colegrove et al., appellants and respondents. George H. Ansley for Edwin F. Hoy, as executor and trustee, et al., respondents and appellants. CRANE, J. The principal trust provisions of this will can be upheld, discarding such as are illegal. The rule is quite well settled that an ulterior limitation, though invalid, will not be allowed to invalidate the primary dispositions of the will, but will be cut off in the case of
Submitted October 16, 1936 Decided November 24, 1936 Appeal from the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department. Lloyd F. Thanhouser for appellant. James A. Bancroft for respondents. Robert H. Jackson, Assistant Attorney-General ( Sewell Key and Helen R. Carloss of counsel), for Commissioner of Internal Revenue of the United States, amicus curiae. CRANE, Ch. J. The Personal Property Law (Cons. Laws, ch. 41), article 2, section 16, reads: "An accumulation of the income of personal property
June 3, 1923. 1. TRUST: Execution: Completely Declared: Owner of Stock as Trustee. Where the owner of corporate stock selects himself as trustee for another, a mere declaration to that effect and of the uses upon which as trustee he holds the stock is all that is necessary to effect a complete trust. 2. ____: Owner of Stock as Trustee: Complete Execution. Deceased was the owner of 595,000 shares of mining stock of the par value of one dollar each. Plaintiff was treasurer of the company, but did not
April 25, 1935. Davies, Auerbach Cornell [ Sydney G. Soons and Harrison F. Durand of counsel], for the petitioner. Joseph F. Condon, special guardian. HENDERSON, S. Upon this combined proceeding to settle the accounts of the corporate executor and trustee, it seeks a determination as to the interest, if any, of the estate of the testator's mother, now deceased, in the proceeds of the testator's war risk insurance received by it as executor. The construction proposed by the surviving executor and
May 15, 1934. MacFarlane, Harris Goldman [ Thomas A. Kelly of counsel], for petitioner. FEELY, S. Among the problems brought up by the depression is that of a legatee in an unconditional legacy, who is in great distress near the end of the period for which the possession has been postponed — as to where the legacy, giving presently to the legatee personally a sum of money, directs it to be held for the legatee until the latter reaches majority, or the age of twenty-five, but without any remainder