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The New York Life Insurance and Trust Company, as Trustee, under the Will of Francis W. Lasak, Deceased, Appellant, v. Ophelia J. Cuthbert et al.; Antoinette Lucinda Schermerhorn, Appellant; Mary A. Frost et al., as Executors of Calvin Frost, Deceased, et al., Respondents
161 N.Y. 631·New York Court of Appeals·1899·NY
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Opinion
The New York Life Insurance and Trust Company, as Trustee, under the Will of Francis W. Lasak, Deceased, Appellant, v. Ophelia J. Cuthbert et al.; Antoinette Lucinda Schermerhorn, Appellant; Mary A. Frost et al., as Executors of Calvin Frost, Deceased, et al., Respondents.
(Submitted December 4, 1899;
decided December 15, 1899.)
[MAJORITY]
Motion to resettle remittitur granted as to the application of Mr. George G. Reynolds for costs to respondent Victoria Adelaide McKenzie against appellant Antoinette Lucinda Schermerhorn, and denied as to application of Mr. R. E. Prime for a bill of costs against said appellant Schermerhorn. (See 160 N. Y. 705.)