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IN RE ESTATE OF GRISWOLD

140 N.J. Super. 35 (1976)

354 A.2d 717

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HAROLD E. GRISWOLD, DECEASED.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Morris County Court, Probate Division.

January 30, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Garth F. Weber for plaintiff American National Bank and Trust (Messrs. Jeffers and Dillon, attorneys).

Mr. Alfred L. Ferguson for defendants Sarah Griswold Leahy, Mary Griswold Flender, Susanna Whitney Griswold and Alfred Whitney Griswold, Jr. (Messrs. McCarter and English, attorneys).

Mr. William J. Brennan, III, for defendant Martin T. Dyke (Messrs. Smith, Stratton, Wise & Heher, attorneys).

LONG, J.S.C.

This case raises, but in a different setting, the same general question as was raised in In re Comly, 90 N.J.Super. 498 (Cty. Ct. 1966), that is, whether an adopted adult is a child of the adopting parent within the meaning of a will of a third person, a "stranger to the adoption," which provides that upon the death of the life tenant (the adopting...

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