Case Name: In the Matter of the Accounting of the Marine Midland Trust Company of Rochester, as Executor of and Trustee under the Will of Frank Wells, Deceased, Appellant-Respondent. Lewis A. Wells et al., Respondents-Appellants
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1972-01-13
Citations: 29 N.Y.2d 931
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Accounting of the Marine Midland Trust Company of Rochester, as Executor of and Trustee under the Will of Frank Wells, Deceased, Appellant-Respondent. Lewis A. Wells et al., Respondents-Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 29
Pages: 931–933

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Accounting of the Marine Midland Trust Company of Rochester, as Executor of and Trustee under the Will of Frank Wells, Deceased, Appellant-Respondent. Lewis A. Wells et al., Respondents-Appellants.
Argued November 16, 1971;
decided January 13, 1972.
Charles M. Carroll and A. Richard Hatfield, Jr. for Lewis A. Wells et al., respondents-appellants.
Bean J. Fero for Doris Gruschow, respondent-appellant.
Byron Johnson, George A. Schell and Curtis W. Barker for appellant-respondent.
J. Paul Brennan, guardian ad litem, pro se, respondent-appellant.
No appearance for Ruth Musfeldt et al., respondents-appellants.

Opinion:
Order affirmed on the opinion at the Appellate Division, with costs to all parties appearing separately and filing separate briefs payable out of the estate.
Concur: Chief Judge Fuld and Judges Burke, Breitel and Jasen. Judges Scileppi, Bergan and Gibson dissent and vote to modify and reinstate the decree of the Surrogate's Court on the Surrogate's opinion.