Order reversed on the law, without costs, and the pro forma taxing order of March 21, 1950, reinstated, without costs.
Power granted to a life tenant to invade the corpus as necessary for her support does not enlarge her interest from that of a life estate to one in fee. (Matter of Stevens, 241 App. Div. 490; Matter of Ithaca Trust Co., 220 N.Y. 437; Matter of Sievert, 246 App. Div. 457; Hasbrouck v. Knoblauch, 130 App. Div. 378...
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