New York Court of Appeals, 1939

In Re the Accounting of New York Trust Co.

In Re the Accounting of New York Trust Co.
New York Court of Appeals · Decided May 17, 1939 · Crane
21 N.E.2d 615; 280 N.Y. 775; 1939 N.Y. LEXIS 1573 (North Eastern Reporter, Second Series)

In Re the Accounting of New York Trust Co.

Dissenting Opinion

Crane, Ch. J.

(dissenting). The testator gave directions in the fifth clause of his will and the executors followed them. The sudden financial collapse of 1929 and 1930 was so extraordinary that the executors cannot be called negligent because they anticipated what everybody else did ■— a rise from a sudden drop. We are all wise after the event.

Opinion of the Court

Order affirmed, with costs payable out of the estate. No opinion.

*776 Concur: Lehman, IIubbs, Loughran and Rippey, JJ. Taking no part: O’Brien, J. Crane, Ch. J., dissents in the following memorandum in which Finch, J., concurs:

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