Citation Numbers: 130 Misc. 336
Judges: Brien
Filed Date: 8/5/1927
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 2/5/2022
The application for an order compelling the execu- ' tors to file an account is denied, the petitioners having failed to show that they are persons interested in this estate. (1) The condition precedent named in section 17 of the Decedent Estate Law (as amd. by Laws of 1923, chap. 301), as necessary to make that statute applicable, viz., that testator have a husband, wife, child or parent, is lacking in the present case for testator, a Roman Catholic clergyman, had neither of the above relations. Therefore, the protection of the statute and the limitation to one-half of decedent’s estate of the bequest made to the Henry McCaddin, Jr., Fund for the Education of Candidates for the Roman Catholic Priesthood in the Poorer Dioceses of the United States of America and Elsewhere, now known under the name of the McCaddin McQuirk Foundation for Sacerdotal Education, are unavailable to petitioners herein. While it is true that the courts have held that “ the provisions of this statute may be insisted upon by anyone who would derive a benefit therefrom although not one of the persons designated in the section,” these decisions were never intended to nor did they hold that those not of the classes designated but who would derive a benefit from the statute could institute proceedings to prevent the whole bequest from taking effect where the testator had no husband or wife, child or parent. An examination of the cases cited in behalf of petitioner discloses the fact that they were within the statute because one or more of the persons designated therein survived