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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, 1899 — 160 N.Y. 705 · caselaw · US
General
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
160 N.Y. 705·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.
(Argued October 24, 1899;
decided November 21, 1899.)
N. Y. Life Ins. & Trust Go. v. Cuthbert, 31 App. Div. 191, affirmed.
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered August 16, 1898, modifying and, as modified, affirming a decree entered upon the report of a referee.
R. E. Robinson and Lucius N. Palmer for appellants.
Ralph E. Prime, Michael PL. Cardozo and G. G. & F. Reynolds for respondents.
[MAJORITY]
Judgment affirmed, with costs, on opinion below.
. All concur, except O’Brien, J., absent, and Bartlett, J., not sitting.