Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1956

In re the Construction of the Will of Martorella

In re the Construction of the Will of Martorella
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided June 11, 1956
2 A.D.2d 688; 153 N.Y.S.2d 589; 1956 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 5083
In re the Construction of the Will of Martorella

Opinion of the Court

Appeal from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court, Queens County, which, inter alia, holds that the trust erected in paragraph Fourth ” of the will herein does not suspend the absolute power of alienation and absolute ownership for more than two lives in being at the time of the testator’s death (Personal Property Law, § 11; Real Property Law, § 42). Decree, insofar as appealed from, unanimously affirmed, with costs to all parties filing separate briefs, payable out of the estate. No opinion. Present —Wenzel, Acting' p. J., Murphy, Ughetta, Hallinan and Kleinfeld, JJ.

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