Case Name: In the Matter of Establishing Contract Binding upon the Estate of Mary O'Connor, Also Known as Mary Anne O'Connor, Also Known as Mary L. O'Connor, Deceased. Julia L. Friehofer, Respondent; Arthur L. Gould, as Executor, etc., of Mary L. O'Connor. Deceased, and Province of St. Joseph of the Capuchin Order, a Domestic Religious Corporation Owning and Controlling Capuchin Fathers Monastery and Seraphicate Seminary of Mary Immaculate of Garrison, New York, Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1936-06
Citations: 248 A.D. 729
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Establishing Contract Binding upon the Estate of Mary O’Connor, Also Known as Mary Anne O’Connor, Also Known as Mary L. O’Connor, Deceased. Julia L. Friehofer, Respondent; Arthur L. Gould, as Executor, etc., of Mary L. O’Connor. Deceased, and Province of St. Joseph of the Capuchin Order, a Domestic Religious Corporation Owning and Controlling Capuchin Fathers Monastery and Seraphicate Seminary of Mary Immaculate of Garrison, New York, Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 248
Pages: 729–729

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Establishing Contract Binding upon the Estate of Mary O’Connor, Also Known as Mary Anne O’Connor, Also Known as Mary L. O’Connor, Deceased. Julia L. Friehofer, Respondent; Arthur L. Gould, as Executor, etc., of Mary L. O’Connor. Deceased, and Province of St. Joseph of the Capuchin Order, a Domestic Religious Corporation Owning and Controlling Capuchin Fathers Monastery and Seraphicate Seminary of Mary Immaculate of Garrison, New York, Appellants.

Opinion:
Proceeding in the Surrogate's Court of Queens count)»' to secure specific performance of a contract between the petitioner and the deceased, Mary O'Connor, under which contract the deceased was obligated to bequeath her property to the petitioner. Decree for the petitioner impressing a trust on decedent's funds in the hands of the executor unanimously affirmed, with costs to respondent payable out of the estate. No opinion. Present — Lazansky, P. J., Carswell, Davis, Adel and Taylor, JJ.