Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1948

In re the Accounting of Geissler

In re the Accounting of Geissler
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided June 28, 1948
274 A.D. 819; 81 N.Y.S.2d 270; 1948 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 3515
In re the Accounting of Geissler

Opinion of the Court

Appeal by the representative of the estate of a remainderman and of the estate of the remainder-man’s father, his sole distributee, from those parts of a decree of the Surrogate’s Court, Suffolk County, which construe subdivision (c) of section (A) of article VIII of the testator’s will as creating a remainder of one tenth of the principal of the trust not absolutely vested in the appealing remainderman, but subject to be divested upon his death, without living descendants, prior to the death of the life beneficiary; and, since that contingency actually occurred, the bequest in remainder lapsed and the remainder passed as intestate property of the testator. Decree, insofar as appealed from, unanimously affirmed, with costs to all parties filing briefs, payable out of the estate of Louis F. Geissler, deceased. No opinion. Present — Lewis, P. J., Carswell, Johnston, Adel and Wenzel, JJ.

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