MATTER OF LANIER


196 Misc. 96 (1949)

In the Matter of the Accounting of Central Hanover Bank & Trust Company, as Successor Trustee under The Will of James F. D. Lanier, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, New York County.

March 28, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William G. Barr and Malcolm G. Spooner for successor trustee, petitioner.

Walter L. & Robert M. Post for Harlan S. Perrigo, as executor of Katharine L. Standish, deceased, and as administrator c. t. a. of Mary McC. Lanier, deceased, respondent.

F. R. Appleton, Jr., and C. C. Turner, Jr., for United States Trust Company, as ancillary administrator of the estate of Anna G. C. Rott, deceased, and as ancillary administrator d. b. n. of the estate of William J. Cravens, deceased, and others, respondents.

Clark, Carr & Ellis for Mary A. Fisk and another, respondents.

White & Case for New York Trust Company, as administrator c. t. a. of Edward Winslow, deceased, and as executor of James N. Winslow and another, deceased, respondent.

Gallop, Climenko, Gould & Lynton for Winslow Little and another, individually and as executors of Marguerite W. Little, deceased, and others, respondents.

Lyman Sessen for Central Hanover Bank & Trust Company, as administrator d. b. n. of the estate of Ridgeway M. Cravens, deceased, and as executor of Rachel B. Raymond, deceased, respondent.

Morrison T. Hankins and Charles B. Clancy for Elliott B. McKee and others, respondents.

Hugh J. Jamison, for Katherine W. Comly and others, respondents.

George C. Norton, special guardian for Charles E. Walcott and another, infants, respondents.

Harold Berger, special guardian for Charles Lanier and others, infants, respondents.


COLLINS, S.

This is a proceeding for the judicial settlement of the account of the successor trustee of the trust for the benefit of Katharine L. Standish created under the will of her father, James F. D. Lanier, who died in 1881. The petitioner also requests a construction of the will.

There have been probated as the will of decedent an initial instrument and nine codicils. Decedent was survived by a...

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