Case Name: Cecelia L. Slater, Appellant, v. John Slater et al., Respondents
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1925-02-25
Citations: 240 N.Y. 557
Docket Number: 
Parties: Cecelia L. Slater, Appellant, v. John Slater et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 240
Pages: 557–557

Head Matter:
Cecelia L. Slater, Appellant, v. John Slater et al., Respondents.
(Argued January 22, 1925;
decided February 25, 1925.)
Decedent’s estate — action to set aside sale of stock belonging to estate.
Slater v. Slater, 208 App. Div. 567, affirmed.
Appeal from a judgment, entered April 14,1924, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, which reversed an order of Special Term denying a motion by defendants for a dismissal of the complaint and granted said motion. The action was brought by Cecelia L. Slater, the widow and principal life beneficiary under the last will and testament of John Slater, deceased, to set aside as null and void a sale of 250 shares of stock in J. & J. Slater, a corporation, made in February, 1904, to the defendant John Slater. It was claimed by the plaintiff that such sale was upon an inadequate consideration and was violative of certain trusts set forth under the last will and testament of John Slater, deceased.
John H. Gleason, John F. Gleason and John L. Lindsay for appellant.
Eugene Congleton and Auguste M. Thiery for respondents.

Opinion:
Judgment affirmed, with costs, on opinion of Merrell, J., below.
Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Cardozo, Pound, Crane, Andrews and Lehman, JJ. Absent: McLaughlin, J.