Case Name: Brooklyn Children's Aid Society, Appellant, v. Thomas F. Mein and Others, Respondents, Impleaded with Others, Defendants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1926-11
Citations: 218 A.D. 773
Docket Number: 
Parties: Brooklyn Children’s Aid Society, Appellant, v. Thomas F. Mein and Others, Respondents, Impleaded with Others, Defendants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 218
Pages: 773–773

Head Matter:
Second Department,
November, 1926.
Brooklyn Children’s Aid Society, Appellant, v. Thomas F. Mein and Others, Respondents, Impleaded with Others, Defendants.

Opinion:
Cropsey, J.
Plaintiff seeks to modify or set aside the decree of this court entered over twenty years ago construing a will and providing the amount which should be paid to specified persons upon a named contingency. The sole basis of the attempt is that the estate has shrunk since said determination and that it would be inequitable to make the division fixed by the former decree. I do not see any such lack of equity. Moreover, the contingency in question has not happened and when it does the situation may be very different and the estate may have increased in size. But, regardless of the foregoing, the decree sought to be modified may be entered upon the consent of all the parties to that action, as it recites, and this plaintiff was one of them. It cannot now maintain this action even if the court has jurisdiction. Judgment for defendant, with costs. Settle findings and judgment on notice.