Case Name: In the Matter of the Estate of Myra M. Schuster, Deceased. Gertrude C. Fitz Gibbon, Appellant; W. Wesley Hill, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1977-01-31
Citations: 55 A.D.2d 957
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Estate of Myra M. Schuster, Deceased. Gertrude C. Fitz Gibbon, Appellant; W. Wesley Hill, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 55
Pages: 957–957

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Estate of Myra M. Schuster, Deceased. Gertrude C. Fitz Gibbon, Appellant; W. Wesley Hill, Respondent.

Opinion:
In a probate proceeding, in which the proponent and contestant stipulated to have the court construe the will to determine whom the testatrix intended to name as executor, the contestant appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of a decree of the Surrogate's Court, Nassau County, dated September 3, 1976, as named the proponent as executor of the estate. Decree affirmed insofar as appealed from, with $50 costs and disbursements to respondent payable personally by appellant. Both the will and the circumstances existing at the time of the testatrix' death, support the Surrogate's determination that the proponent was intended by the testatrix to be executor of the estate. Hopkins, Acting P. J., Martuscello, Cohalan and Damiani, JJ., concur.