MATTER OF EASTMAN


63 A.D.3d 738 (2009)

880 N.Y.S.2d 157

In the Matter of LAURA DELANO EASTMAN, Also Known as LAURA D. EASTMAN, Also Known as LAURA EASTMAN, Deceased. STANLEY M. ACKERT III et al., Respondents; LAUREN FORTMILLER, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.

Decided June 2, 2009.


Ordered that the decree is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs payable by the objectant, personally.

The objectant contends that Marguerite Lewis, a friend of the decedent since the early 1960s and a nonbeneficiary under the propounded instruments, unduly influenced the decedent by portraying the objectant in an unfavorable light after the conclusion of a relationship between Lewis and the objectant and after the two had ceased living together. The objectant...

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