Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York March 29, 2004 (In re the Estate of Hunter)

lead-opinion

OPINION OF THE COURT

Prudenti, PJ.

In this case, the petitioner Chase Manhattan Bank served as (1) an executor of a decedent’s estate and (2) a trustee of two separate testamentary trusts established by the decedent. For the sake of simplicity, we may refer to these two trusts as the Eighth (A) Trust and the Eighth (B) Trust.