Court Opinion

ID: 9765177
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 03:54:35.896623+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:05.954920
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Hall, J.
(dissenting). I would reverse the judgment of the trial court on the thesis expressed in my dissenting opinion in In re Thompson’s Will, 53 N. J. 276 (1969). It may also be noted that in the case at bar an eminent New Jersey law firm, long experienced in estate matters, advised New York counsel for the corporate trustee in *4211934, after the first adoption by the testator’s daughter, that the adopted child was not interested in the then contemplated accounting. The advice is a further indication that the law of this state was well understood to presumptively exclude adopted children from the scope of generic terms in the will of a stranger to the adoption.
For affirmance—Chief Justice Weintraub and Justices Francis, Proctor, Schettino and Haneman—5.
For reversal—Justices Jacobs and Hall—3.