Case Name: Helen A. Troy, Respondent, v. The New York Trust Company, Individually and as Testamentary Trustee under the Last Will and Testament of Henry L. Wolff, Deceased, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1940-01-02
Citations: 258 A.D. 959
Docket Number: 
Parties: Helen A. Troy, Respondent, v. The New York Trust Company, Individually and as Testamentary Trustee under the Last Will and Testament of Henry L. Wolff, Deceased, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 258
Pages: 959–961

Head Matter:
Second Department,
January, 1940.
(January 2, 1940.)
Helen A. Troy, Respondent, v. The New York Trust Company, Individually and as Testamentary Trustee under the Last Will and Testament of Henry L. Wolff, Deceased, Appellant.

Opinion:
In an action at law, brought by plaintiff, a cestui of a trust of which the defendant is the alleged trustee, to recover damages sustained by reason of the negligence of the defendant in failing to reduce to possession for the purposes of administration the trust corpus, order denying defendant's motion for summary judgment affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements. No opinion.
Lazansky, P. J., Carswell, Taylor and Close, JJ., concur; Hagarty, J., dissents and votes to reverse the order and to grant the motion with opinion,