Case Name: In the Matter of Mabel L. Brown, an Incompetent Person; Richard L. Brown et al., Appellants; The Mechanics and Metals National Bank of the City of New York, as Committee of the Person and Property of Mabel L. Brown, an Incompetent Person, Respondent
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1925-05-15
Citations: 240 N.Y. 646
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Mabel L. Brown, an Incompetent Person. Richard L. Brown et al., Appellants; The Mechanics and Metals National Bank of the City of New York, as Committee of the Person and Property of Mabel L. Brown, an Incompetent Person, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 240
Pages: 646–647

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Mabel L. Brown, an Incompetent Person. Richard L. Brown et al., Appellants; The Mechanics and Metals National Bank of the City of New York, as Committee of the Person and Property of Mabel L. Brown, an Incompetent Person, Respondent.
(Submitted May 5, 1925;
decided May 15, 1925.)
Incompetent persons — dower — election by incompetent widow between dower and provision in will of deceased husband.
Matter of Brown, 212 App. Div. 677, affirmed.
Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the ■ Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered April 9, 1925, which unanimously affirmed an order of Special Term electing on behalf of Mabel L. Brown, an incompetent person, to take her interest under the provisions made for her in the last will and testament of her late husband, Herbert W. Brown, deceased, and to renounce her dower interest in any and all real property which was of the late Herbert W. Brown, or in which he had an interest, as of the date of his death.
Raymond E. Aldrich and George Wright Hinckley for appellants.
Herbert Barry, Henry W. Proffitt and John R. Schwartz for respondent.

Opinion:
Order affirmed, without costs, on opinion of Young, J., below.
Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Cardozo, McLaughlin, Crane, Andrews and Lehman, JJ. Absent: Pound, J.