Case Name: City Bank Farmers Trust Company, as Substituted Trustee under the Last Will and Testament of G. Waldo Smith, Deceased, Appellant, v. G. Waldo Smith, Jr., and Another, Respondents, Impleaded with Lily Loring Weeks and Others, Defendants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1933-06-30
Citations: 238 A.D. 742
Docket Number: 
Parties: City Bank Farmers Trust Company, as Substituted Trustee under the Last Will and Testament of G. Waldo Smith, Deceased, Appellant, v. G. Waldo Smith, Jr., and Another, Respondents, Impleaded with Lily Loring Weeks and Others, Defendants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 238
Pages: 742–744

Head Matter:
City Bank Farmers Trust Company, as Substituted Trustee under the Last Will and Testament of G. Waldo Smith, Deceased, Appellant, v. G. Waldo Smith, Jr., and Another, Respondents, Impleaded with Lily Loring Weeks and Others, Defendants.
First Department,
June 30, 1933.
Charles Angulo of counsel [Bernard Bernstein with him on the brief; Taylor, Blanc, Capron & Marsh, attorneys], for the appellant.
Jesse F. Orton of counsel [Thomas Campbell, attorney], for the respondents.
Neil P. Cullom of counsel [Henry W. Steingarten with him on the brief], guardian ad litem, for the defendants Julia W. Andrews and others.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The dismissal of the complaint was proper.
The facts alleged fail to justify the trustee seeking instructions of the court. The trustees are required to exercise their own judgment and discretion in many instances. Under the lease already approved by the court the trustee has definite rights and adequate remedies. Were the court in such an instance to entertain applications for instructions, trustees would become mere ministerial agents and the courts would be overrun with applications of like character.
The orders appealed from should be affirmed, with twenty dollars costs and disbursements.
Present — Finch, P. J., Merrell, O'Malley, Townley and Glennon, JJ.; Finch, P. J., and Merrell, J., dissent and vote to reverse and deny.