Case Name: In the Matter of Frank R. Hope and Another, as Executors, etc., of Herbert I. Foster, Deceased, Respondents, to Discover, Certain Property of Said Deceased Claimed to Be Withheld by Katherine D. Foster, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1935-05
Citations: 244 A.D. 808
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Frank R. Hope and Another, as Executors, etc., of Herbert I. Foster, Deceased, Respondents, to Discover, Certain Property of Said Deceased Claimed to Be Withheld by Katherine D. Foster, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 244
Pages: 808–809

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Frank R. Hope and Another, as Executors, etc., of Herbert I. Foster, Deceased, Respondents, to Discover, Certain Property of Said Deceased Claimed to Be Withheld by Katherine D. Foster, Appellant.

Opinion:
In a discovery proceeding, decree of the Surrogate's Court of Nassau county, adjudging that Herbert I. Foster was, at the time of his death, the owner of certain securities claimed by appellant as her property, unanimously affirmed, with costs, payable by appellant. While we regard as incompetent the testimony given by Mr. Hope, expressing his opinion that the decedent would not have stated that he was buying bearer bonds to produce an income for his wife as testified to by the witness Aubert, we think the testimony was not so prejudicial to the appellant as to call for a reversal of the decree. (Civ. Prac. Act, § 106.) Present — Lazansky, P. J., Young, Hagarty, Carswell and Scudder, JJ.