Case ID: misc2d_16/html/0562-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Maximilian Moss, S.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of the Accounting of Chase Manhattan Bank et al., as Executors of Walter C. Garrison, Deceased.
    Surrogate’s Court, Kings County,
    February 24, 1959.
    
      Vosseler & Donnelly for petitioners.
    
      Francis A. McGrath for American National Bed Cross and another.
   Maximilian Moss, S.

The petition seeks a construction of the Fifth ’ ’ article of the will to determine the validity, construction and effect of a bequest made therein to ‘ ‘ American Bed Cross, Brooklyn Chapter. ’ ’ The petition discloses that American National Bed Cross ’’ is a corporation incorporated by an Act of Congress of the United States, and that American National Bed Cross, Brooklyn Chapter is the local branch of said incorporated corporation. A bequest will not be defeated by misnomer if the testator’s intent is ascertainable (Kernochan v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co., 187 App. Div. 668, affd. 227 N. Y. 658). The court finds that the testator intended the gift provided in said article ‘ Fifth ” to be payable to ‘ ‘ The American National Bed Cross, Brooklyn Chapter ” maintaining its offices at No. 1 Bed Cross Place, in the Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York.

Settle decree on notice.