Court Opinion

ID: 5293344
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 02:36:47.319297+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:28:58.264562
License: Public Domain

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.