Case Name: In the Matter of the Will of Charles H. Rathbone, Deceased. Charles H. Rathbone, III, et al., Appellants and Respondents; Orrin R. Judd et al., as Executors of Charles H. Rathbone, Deceased, et al., Respondents
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1942-01-08
Citations: 287 N.Y. 708
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Will of Charles H. Rathbone, Deceased. Charles H. Rathbone, III, et al., Appellants and Respondents; Orrin R. Judd et al., as Executors of Charles H. Rathbone, Deceased, et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 287
Pages: 708–712

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Will of Charles H. Rathbone, Deceased. Charles H. Rathbone, III, et al., Appellants and Respondents; Orrin R. Judd et al., as Executors of Charles H. Rathbone, Deceased, et al., Respondents.
Argued November 25, 1941;
decided January 8, 1942.
Vermont Hatch and Dudley Miller for Martha M. Rathbone, as general guardian of Charles H. Rathbone, III, appellant and respondent.
John A. Dutton and Leone Pecoraro for Santa Fe Lodge of Perfection No. 1, et al., appellants and respondents.
Harold R. Medina, John Preston Phillips and John W. Jordan for Syria Temple and Syria Improvement Association, appellants and respondents.
Rutherford S. Moorhead for Imperial Council of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America (an Iowa corporation), appellant and respondent.
John D. Armstrong for Imperial Council Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America (a Colorado corporation), appellant and respondent.
Edward I. Devlin, Jr., and William J. Bolte for Northern Star Lodge No. 555, Free and Accepted Masons, appellant and respondent.
Edward I. Devlin, Jr., and William J. Bolte for Trinity Commandery No. 58, Knights Templar, of Bradford, Pennsylvania, appellant and respondent.
Edward I. Devlin, Jr., and William J. Bolte for Bradford Lodge No. 234, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the United States of America, and Elks Club, Bradford Lodge No. 234, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the United States of America, appellant and respondent.
Dermod Ives, Michael F. Dee, Orrin G. Judd, Howell D. Boyd and Archibald A. Patterson for Orrin R. Judd et al., as executors of Charles H. Rathbone, deceased, respondents.
Thomas B. Gilchrist and Hampton D. Ewing, Jr., for Salvation Army,' respondent.
B. I. deYoung, Bernard S. Barron, Robert Rockmore and George P. Halperin for Masonic Home of Pennsylvania, respondent.

Opinion:
Order affirmed, with costs to each party filing a brief payable out of the estate; no opinion. (See 287 N. Y. 847.)
Concur: Lehman, Ch. J., Loughran, Finch, Rippey, Lewis, Conway and Desmond, JJ.