Case Name: In the Matter of the Estate of Mary G. Pinkney, Deceased. Emery J. Thomas, as Administrator of the Estate of Grace W. Thomas, Deceased, Appellant; Julia W. Lawrence et al., Respondents
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1924-06-03
Citations: 238 N.Y. 602
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Estate of Mary G. Pinkney, Deceased. Emery J. Thomas, as Administrator of the Estate of Grace W. Thomas, Deceased, Appellant; Julia W. Lawrence et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 238
Pages: 602–602

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Estate of Mary G. Pinkney, Deceased. Emery J. Thomas, as Administrator of the Estate of Grace W. Thomas, Deceased, Appellant; Julia W. Lawrence et al., Respondents.
Trusts and trustees — apportionment of income between life beneficiaries.
Matter of Pinkney, 208 App. Div. 181, affirmed.
(Argued May 20, 1924;
decided June 3, 1924.)
Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered January 11, 1924, which unanimously affirmed a decree of the New York County Surrogate’s Court in a proceeding for the apportionment between life beneficiaries of income arising from a trust created by the last will and testament of Mary G. Pinkney, deceased.
Bertrand L. Pettigrew, David B. Luckey and George W. Thomas for appellant.
Benjamin R. Buffett for Julia W. Lawrence, respondent.
Donald C. Strachan and Wesley S. Sawyer for Mechanics and Metals National Bank, as trustee, respondent.
Charles P. Northrop for Keith W. Morris et al., respondents.
Frederick H. McCoun for Louis H. Morris, respondent.
Burt D. Whedon, special guardian for Louis H. Morris, Jr., et al., respondents.

Opinion:
Order affirmed, with one bill of costs to respondents Lawrence and Mechanics and Metals National Bank and costs to special guardian all payable out of fund ordered to be paid to appellant; no opinion.
Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Crane, Andrews and Lehman, JJ.