MATTER OF MEYER, 181 N.Y. 562 (1905)

74 N.E. 1120

In the Matter of the Accounting of IDA MEYER et al., as Executors of and Trustees under the Will of ISAIAS MEYER, Deceased, Respondents. SOPHIE STARK et al., Appellants; IDA MEYER et al., as Committees of LINDA MEYER, an Incompetent Person, Appellants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.Argued April 17, 1905
Decided May 2, 1905

William N. Cohen, Mayer L. Halff and Rastus S. Ransom for Sophie Stark, appellant.

Albert Stickney and Albert Stickney, Jr., for Aubrey E. Meyer, appellant.

Herbert Parsons for Estate of Linda Meyer, an Incompetent, appellant and respondent.

Ferdinand R. Minrath for respondents.

Order affirmed, with costs, on opinion below.

Concur: GRAY, O’BRIEN, HAIGHT, VANN and WERNER, JJ., and BARTLETT, J., on the ground that the executors and trustees were justified in executing the McGill agreement and continuing that business; but is unable to concur that the charges of interest against the four beneficiaries under the will, as made by the referee and adopted by the surrogate, were proper. Dissenting: CULLEN, Ch. J.

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