Case Name: In the Matter of the Accounting of Howard T. Kingsbury, as Executor of and Trustee under the Will of Samuel Frost, Deceased. Alice C. B. Kingsbury, Appellant; Maude O. H. Jessup et al., Respondents
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1920-12-31
Citations: 230 N.Y. 580
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Accounting of Howard T. Kingsbury, as Executor of and Trustee under the Will of Samuel Frost, Deceased. Alice C. B. Kingsbury, Appellant; Maude O. H. Jessup et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 230
Pages: 580–580

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Accounting of Howard T. Kingsbury, as Executor of and Trustee under the Will of Samuel Frost, Deceased. Alice C. B. Kingsbury, Appellant; Maude O. H. Jessup et al., Respondents.
Will — remainder to “heirs at law” of testator’s daughter — when adopted daughter of said daughter not entitled to take thereunder.
Matter of Kingsbury, 192 App. Div. 206, affirmed.
(Argued December 7, 1920;
decided December 31, 1920.)
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered June 16, 1920, reversing a decree of the New York County Surrogate’s Court and awarding to the respondents, who are the only grandchildren of the testator, a portion of the testator’s estate which the surrogate had awarded to the appellant under a gift in the will to the “ heirs at law ” of the testator’s deceased daughter, Mrs. Emma F. Bussing, it being claimed that the appellant had been adopted while an adult by Mrs. Bussing shortly prior to her death.
Frederick R. Coudert for appellant.
Charles E. Hughes and Augustus L. Richards for respondents.

Opinion:
Order affirmed, with costs, on opinion of Greenbaum, J., below.
Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Chase, Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Crane and Andrews, JJ.