Case Name: In the Matter of the Petition of Brooklyn Trust Company for a Determination as to the Construction and Effect of the Disposition of Property Contained in the " Ninth " Clause of the Will of Adelaide L. Burroughs, Late of the County of Kings, Deceased. Marie Gewert, Albert Hahn, Frederick A. Hahn, Gerard Foster Burroughs and Grace Paterson, Appellants; Brooklyn Trust Company, as Executor, etc., of Adelaide L. Burroughs, Deceased, and Joseph A. Kennedy, as Special Guardian for Lorraine Laux and Elenore Laux, Infants, etc., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1929-03
Citations: 226 A.D. 683
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Petition of Brooklyn Trust Company for a Determination as to the Construction and Effect of the Disposition of Property Contained in the “ Ninth ” Clause of the Will of Adelaide L. Burroughs, Late of the County of Kings, Deceased. Marie Gewert, Albert Hahn, Frederick A. Hahn, Gerard Foster Burroughs and Grace Paterson, Appellants; Brooklyn Trust Company, as Executor, etc., of Adelaide L. Burroughs, Deceased, and Joseph A. Kennedy, as Special Guardian for Lorraine Laux and Elenore Laux, Infants, etc., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 226
Pages: 683–683

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Petition of Brooklyn Trust Company for a Determination as to the Construction and Effect of the Disposition of Property Contained in the “ Ninth ” Clause of the Will of Adelaide L. Burroughs, Late of the County of Kings, Deceased. Marie Gewert, Albert Hahn, Frederick A. Hahn, Gerard Foster Burroughs and Grace Paterson, Appellants; Brooklyn Trust Company, as Executor, etc., of Adelaide L. Burroughs, Deceased, and Joseph A. Kennedy, as Special Guardian for Lorraine Laux and Elenore Laux, Infants, etc., Respondents.
Affd., 251 N. Y. 549.

Opinion:
— Decree of the Surrogate's Court of Kings county reversed upon the law, with costs, payable out of the estate, to all parties appearing and filing briefs. We construe the will to read: (1) That the direction for the payment of general legacies out of the proceeds of the sale of the real property is demonstrative and that the general legacies be paid in full; (2) that testatrix's interest in the corporation known as Burroughs Building Material Company is not specifically bequeathed to the residuary legatees but is a part of the residuary estate. Decree directed to be entered accordingly. Seeger, Carswell and Seudder, JJ., concur; Lazansky, P. J., and Hagarty, J., dissent. Settle order on notice.