Case ID: ad_253/html/0895-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of Readjustment, Modification and Reorganization of the Rights of the Holders of Mortgage Investments, Guaranteed by Lawyers Westchester Mortgage & Title Company and Westchester Title and Trust Company, Designated and Referred to Herein. Charles A. Herman and Annie J. Herman, Methodist Episcopal Church Home, Janet Jaffin and George M. Jaffin, Appellants; Charles J. F. Decker, William J. O’Brien, John F. Doyle, William Johnson, George F. Rogers and John Kinkel, Respondents.
   Order of the Additional Special Term modified by adding a provision limiting it to the sixteen mortgage series in which the ten moving parties hold certificates, and by providing that John F. Doyle be removed as trustee in the ten mortgage series in which appellants hold certificates; and as so modified the order is affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements to appellants, payable out of the trust estates in which appellants have an interest. It is admitted that respondent Doyle is a stockholder in the Hudson Harlem Valley Title & Mortgage Company. This stock interest places him in an inconsistent position. His duties as a trustee conflict with his interest as a stockholder. Under such circumstances he is disqualified from acting as trustee and should be removed. As to the other respondents, the proof does not show they occupy an inconsistent position or have an adverse interest. This proceeding must be limited to the mortgage series in which appellants hold certificates. Appellants are without standing or right to attack the election or qualification of the trustees in other series. (Matter of Westchester Title & Trust Company [ Kelly et al.], ante, p. 757; Brenner v. Title Guarantee & Trust Co., 276 N. Y. 230, 234, 237.) Lazansky, P. J., Carswell, Davis, Johnston and Adel, JJ., concur. Settle order on notice.