Case Name: In the Matter of the Accounting of Brooklyn Trust Company et al., as Trustees under the Will of Euretta J. Schlegel, Deceased, Respondents. Trustees of Columbia University, Appellant; Agnes K. Bower, Individually and as Executrix of Sibyl M. Bower, Deceased, et al., Respondents
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1951-04-13
Citations: 302 N.Y. 787
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Accounting of Brooklyn Trust Company et al., as Trustees under the Will of Euretta J. Schlegel, Deceased, Respondents. Trustees of Columbia University, Appellant; Agnes K. Bower, Individually and as Executrix of Sibyl M. Bower, Deceased, et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 302
Pages: 787–789

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Accounting of Brooklyn Trust Company et al., as Trustees under the Will of Euretta J. Schlegel, Deceased, Respondents. Trustees of Columbia University, Appellant; Agnes K. Bower, Individually and as Executrix of Sibyl M. Bower, Deceased, et al., Respondents.
Argued March 1, 1951;
decided April 13, 1951.
William J. O’Shea, John Godfrey Saxe and Henry J. Kennedy for appellant.
Nathaniel Rubin and Clarence J. Drake for Agnes K. Bower and others, respondents.

Opinion:
Decree affirmed, with costs to all parties appearing separately and filing separate briefs payable out of the estate. No opinion.
Concur: Loughran, Ch. J., Conway, Fuld and Froessel, JJ.; Lewis, Desmond and Dye, JJ., dissent and vote for reversal in the following memorandum: When the will is read as a whole, it is clear that the testatrix intended a ratable distribution of the remainder of the Sibyl M. Bower trust among the named beneficiaries. (Matter of Low, 232 App. Div. 414, affd. 257 N. Y. 613; Matter of Knickerbocker, 255 App. Div. 309, affd. 280 N. Y. 560.)