MATTER OF BUCKINGHAM


199 Misc. 606 (1950)

In the Matter of the Accounting of City Bank Farmers Trust Company, as Trustee under The Will of Oliver W. Buckingham, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, New York County.

October 9, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mitchell, Capron, Marsh, Angulo & Cooney for trustee, petitioner.

Thomas R. Hart, Jr., and Aaron Frank for Susie W. Holbrook and others, respondents.

Vincent D. Stearns for Laura E. Haight and others, respondents.

Milton L. Epstein for Mary L. Haskin, respondent.

Edward H. Beck, special guardian for unknown heirs, next of kin and distributees of Ella L. Haskin, respondent.


COLLINS, S.

The trustee has filed its final account and requests a construction of the will in respect of distribution of the corpus. The trust was for the life use of Ella Louise Haskin and upon her death the principal is bequeathed "to her issue, if any, or, in default of such issue, to her heirs-at-law." She died without issue.

The court has heretofore ruled that an adopted adult daughter is not entitled...

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