General
In the Matter of the Application of Anna D. Schmidt, Widow of Fritz George Schmidt, Deceased, for Enlargement of Time to Make an Election Relative to Her Dower Interests in the Lands of and Relative to Her Rights to Take Her Share as in Intestacy in the Estate of Fritz George Schmidt, Deceased. Anna D. Schmidt, Appellant; Helen S. Davidson and The Fifth Avenue Bank of New York, as Executors and Trustees of the Will of Fritz George Schmidt, Deceased, Helen S. Davidson, Individually, Anna-Luise O'Connor, Erna H. Awalt, Arthur D. Brennan, Special Guardian for Joan O'Connor, Frances Ann O'Connor, Jean Awalt and Jean Marie Byrom, Infants, Objectants, Respondents, and Others, Respondents
256 A.D. 827·New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division·1939·NY
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Opinion
In the Matter of the Application of Anna D. Schmidt, Widow of Fritz George Schmidt, Deceased, for Enlargement of Time to Make an Election Relative to Her Dower Interests in the Lands of and Relative to Her Rights to Take Her Share as in Intestacy in the Estate of Fritz George Schmidt, Deceased. Anna D. Schmidt, Appellant; Helen S. Davidson and The Fifth Avenue Bank of New York, as Executors and Trustees of the Will of Fritz George Schmidt, Deceased, Helen S. Davidson, Individually, Anna-Luise O’Connor, Erna H. Awalt, Arthur D. Brennan, Special Guardian for Joan O’Connor, Frances Ann O’Connor, Jean Awalt and Jean Marie Byrom, Infants, Objectants, Respondents, and Others, Respondents.
[MAJORITY]
On argument, order denying appellant’s application for an enlargement of time within which to make her election relating to dower and to make her election to take her share of decedent’s estate as in intestacy reversed on the law and the facts, without costs, application granted, and time to make an election enlarged until ten days after the determination of the appeal from the decree of the Surrogate’s Court of Westchester county, entered December 10, 1938, construing the will of decedent and adjudicating appellant’s rights thereunder, on condition that said appeal be perfected and brought on for argument at the February, 1939, term. Lazansky, P. J., Carswell, Johnston, Adel and Taylor, JJ., concur.