MATTER OF LOTT


23 Misc.2d 275 (1960)

In the Matter of the Construction of the Will of Walter R. Lott, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, Kings County.

April 6, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wandmaker, Neumann & Lemken for The Protestant Dutch Reformed Church of the Town of Flatlands, petitioner.

Edmund C. Donovan for Kings County Trust Company, executor, respondent.

Sullivan & Cromwell (William Pierce and Lorene Joergensen of counsel), for Richard V. S. Lenk and others.


MAXIMILIAN MOSS, S.

Petitioner seeks a construction of article "SEVENTH" of the will to determine whether estate taxes are to be apportioned among the residuary legatees named in article "SIXTH" of the will, one of whom is a religious corporation. By the terms of the latter article, after a bequest of $5,000 is made to a named cousin, one third is bequeathed to petitioner for its use in the manner therein indicated, and the remaining two thirds to two...

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