In re the Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of Robottom

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

In re the Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of Robottom

248 A.D. 637

CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

DecidedMay 15, 1936

StatusPublished

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In re the Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of Robottom, 248 A.D. 637 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1936).

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Decree of the Surrogate’s Court of Suffolk county settling the account of proceedings of Sidney A. Robottom, as administrator of the goods, chattels and credits of Alfred Thomas Robottom, deceased, modified by striking therefrom the provision that the appraised valuation of $7,000 of the real property of which decedent died seized is the true market value thereof and by directing that the matter in that phase be remitted to the said Surrogate’s Court for determination of such value upon oral proofs. As so modified, the decree, in so far as an appeal is taken therefrom, is unanimously affirmed, with costs, payable out of the estate, to each party filing a brief. We are of opinion (1) that upon the undisputed facts June Spikings Robot-tom is the lawful widow of the decedent; that his previous marriage, in 1919, to Sarah Judd (Crist) was void in view of her then valid and subsisting marriage to Harry Crist; that the decedent and the decedent’s first wife, Josephine Chapin Boerum, were, and the said first wife is, estopped from claiming the invalidity of the Connecticut divorce obtained by said first wife (See Starbuck v. Starbuck, 173 N. Y. 503, 507; Kelsey v. Kelsey, 204 App. Div. 116; affd., 237 N. Y. 520), and that the objeetant-appellant is likewise thus estopped; and (2) that the situation disclosed in the record, which contains conflicting affidavits as to the value of decedent’s real estate and, as well, a request by the appellant that oral proofs be taken, was such as to require the taking of the same as a basis for determining such value. (See New York Life Ins. Co. v. Guttag Corp., 265 N. Y. 292, 296, and People v. Henriques & Co., 267 id. 398.) Present — Lazansky, P. J., Young, Hagarty, Carswell and Taylor, JJ.

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Decree of the Surrogate’s Court of Suffolk county settling the account of proceedings of Sidney A. Robottom, as administrator of the goods, chattels and credits of Alfred Thomas Robottom, deceased, modified by striking therefrom the provision that the appraised valuation of $7,000 of the real property of which decedent died seized is the true market value thereof and by directing that the matter in that phase be remitted to the said Surrogate’s Court for determination of such value upon oral proofs. As so modified, the decree, in so far as an appeal is taken therefrom, is unanimously affirmed, with costs, payable out of the estate, to each party filing a brief. We are of opinion (1) that upon the undisputed facts June Spikings Robot-tom is the lawful widow of the decedent; that his previous marriage, in 1919, to Sarah Judd (Crist) was void in view of her then valid and subsisting marriage to Harry Crist; that the decedent and the decedent’s first wife, Josephine Chapin Boerum, were, and the said first wife is, estopped from claiming the invalidity of the Connecticut divorce obtained by said first wife (See Starbuck v. Starbuck, 173 N. Y. 503, 507; Kelsey v. Kelsey, 204 App. Div. 116; affd., 237 N. Y. 520), and that the objeetant-appellant is likewise thus estopped; and (2) that the situation disclosed in the record, which contains conflicting affidavits as to the value of decedent’s real estate and, as well, a request by the appellant that oral proofs be taken, was such as to require the taking of the same as a basis for determining such value. (See New York Life Ins. Co. v. Guttag Corp., 265 N. Y. 292, 296, and People v. Henriques & Co., 267 id. 398.) Present — Lazansky, P. J., Young, Hagarty, Carswell and Taylor, JJ.

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