Case ID: ny-sup-ct_11/html/0068-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Daniels, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ANNA K. GILMAN, Appellant, v. THEOPHILUS GILMAN, Respondent.
    
      Discretionary power in executors — must be exercised by magority.
    
    Where a discretionary power is given to executors to withhold payments to certain children of the testator, it must be exercised by a majority of the executqrs.
    Appeal from an order of the surrogate of the county of New York, directing the payment of $25,000 to the respondent, as part of his residuary interest in the estate of the testator. The payment was opposed by one of the then executors: 1st. Because she thought it desirable that the payment should be deferred, the testator having given a discretionary power to his executors to withhold payment from his children, for a suitable period beyond the age of twenty-five years; 2d. That the amount would, with what the respondent had already received, exceed what- had been paid to the other legatees, which was denied by the respondent. The court modified the order by reducing the amount to $17,000.
    
      
      E. C. Benedict, for the appellant.
    
      Charles H. Glover, for the respondent.
   Opinion by

Daniels, J.

Davis, P. J., and Brady, J., concurred.

Order modified by reducing amount to $17,000, and as thus . modified affirmed, without costs to either party.