Case ID: misc_196/html/0236-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Boylan, S.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of the Accounting of Bank of New York and Fifth Avenue Bank, as Executor of Richard L. Stafford, Deceased.
    Surrogate’s Court, Richmond County,
    September 30, 1949.
    
      Emmet, Marvin & Martin for executor, petitioner.
    
      Lord, Bay $ Lord for Frances E. Livingston, objectant.
   Boylan, S.

The objections filed by Frances E. Livingston, having been withdrawn, the account is approved as filed. The executor is granted permission to abandon all property listed in schedule B-l of the account.

By the fifth paragraph of his will, the decedent bequeathed his “ household furniture and furnishings ” to a cousin, Helen Stafford Jefferson. The executor requests the court to instruct it as to whether the decedent’s automobile is included in “ household furniture and furnishings ”. It has been held that the words “ personal effects ” and household effects ” were broad enough to include an automobile. (Matter of Jones, 128 Misc. 244; Matter of Winburn, 139 Misc. 5; Matter of Burnside, 185 Misc. 808.) The word “ effects ” is a very general term. The words “ furniture ” and furnishings ” have definite, certain and limited meanings which do not include an automobile.

Enter decree accordingly.