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Matter of Schmoll

Court of Appeals of the State of New York
Dec 7, 1920
130 N.E. 893 (N.Y. 1920)

Summary

In Matter of Schmoll (230 N.Y. 559, decided in 1920 and affg. 191 App. Div. 435) the widow and children took not under a testamentary disposition but in conformity with an ante-nuptial agreement executed pursuant to a statute of one of the Swiss cantons of which they were citizens at the time of the execution of the agreement and at the time of the husband's death in 1917.

Summary of this case from Matter of Howell

Opinion

Argued November 17, 1920

Decided December 7, 1920

Schuyler C. Carlton and Lafayette B. Gleason for appellant.

Sidney J. Loeb and Leon M. Prince for respondents.


Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: HISCOCK, Ch. J., COLLIN, HOGAN, CARDOZO, POUND, CRANE and ANDREWS, JJ.


Summaries of

Matter of Schmoll

Court of Appeals of the State of New York
Dec 7, 1920
130 N.E. 893 (N.Y. 1920)

In Matter of Schmoll (230 N.Y. 559, decided in 1920 and affg. 191 App. Div. 435) the widow and children took not under a testamentary disposition but in conformity with an ante-nuptial agreement executed pursuant to a statute of one of the Swiss cantons of which they were citizens at the time of the execution of the agreement and at the time of the husband's death in 1917.

Summary of this case from Matter of Howell
Case details for

Matter of Schmoll

Case Details

Full title:In the Matter of the Transfer Tax upon the Estate of EDMUND SCHMOLL…

Court:Court of Appeals of the State of New York

Date published: Dec 7, 1920

Citations

130 N.E. 893 (N.Y. 1920)
130 N.E. 893

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