Case Name: City Bank Farmers Trust Company, trustee, &c., complainant-respondent, v. Peder S. Bruguiere, defendant-appellant, and Ann Cooper Hewitt et al., defendants-respondents
Court: New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1941-09-19
Citations: 130 N.J. Eq. 213
Docket Number: 
Parties: City Bank Farmers Trust Company, trustee, &c., complainant-respondent, v. Peder S. Bruguiere, defendant-appellant, and Ann Cooper Hewitt et al., defendants-respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Equity Reports
Volume: 130
Pages: 213–214

Head Matter:
City Bank Farmers Trust Company, trustee, &c., complainant-respondent, v. Peder S. Bruguiere, defendant-appellant, and Ann Cooper Hewitt et al., defendants-respondents.
[Argued May 28th, 1941.
Decided September 19th, 1941.]
Mr. William V. Breslin, for the appellant.
Mr. James B. M. Tams, for the complainant-respondent.
Mr. Horace G. Jeffers, for the respondent Ann Cooper Hewitt.
Mr. Borden D. Whiling, for the respondent Cooper Union.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
We conclude that the decree under review should he affirmed, and are in entire accord with the conclusions and reasoning of the court below.
The opinion of Vice-Chancellor Stein was filed on August 30th, 1940, at which time an important question of fact remained unsettled, viz., whether at the death of the widow (which the Vice-Chancellor correctly held was the determinative date as of which the net value of the estate was to be ascertained) the net value was less or more than a million dollars.. Just five months later, on January 30th, 1941, there was a further hearing, at which it was settled without substantial question that the value of the estate at the death of the widow was less than a million and consequently under the codicil the trust fund to be set aside was decreed to be $50,000. It is the decree then made, and fixing that amount, that is before us on this appeal and is now affirmed..
For affirmance — The Chiee-Justice, Parker, Case, Bodine, Donges, Heiier, Perskie, Porter, Colie, Dear, Wells, Raeeerty, Hague, Thompson, JJ. '14.
For reversal — None.