In re the Accounting of Bank of New York — 297 N.Y. 920

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In the Matter of the Accounting of Bank of New York, as Trustee under the Will of Ella J. Hoagland, Deceased, Respondent. Elinor G. Clendenin et al., Appellants; Hopewell Society of Brooklyn et al., Respondents.

Argued March 15, 1948;

decided April 22, 1948.

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Thomas A. Ryan for appellants.

Albert W. Meisel for Hopewell Society of Brooklyn et al., respondents.

George W. Martin, Richard 8. Emmet, John L. Merrill, Jr., and Eunice M. O’Neill for Bank of New York, respondent.

Albert R. George for Violet Tangeman Cottrell, respondent.

Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney-General (P. Hodges Combier and Wendell P. Brown of counsel), for unknown beneficiaries, respondent.

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James N. Vaughan and Jeremiah P. Lyons for Bank of New York, respondent.

Peter Keber, C. Alexander Gapron and Albert B. Maginnes for State Bankers Association, amicus curies, in support of respondents’ position.

Order affirmed, with costs to all parties appearing separately and filing separate briefs payable o.ut of the fund; no opinion.

Concur: Loughban, Ch. J., Lewis, Conway, Desmond, Thacheb, Dye and Fuld, JJ.