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Wills, Trusts & Estates Keyed to Gallanis
Matter of Pulitzer
Citation:
249 N.Y.S. 87 (Sur. Ct. 1931)Facts
Joseph Pulitzer died in the year 1911. He left a will and four codicils which were admitted to probate by this court on November 29, 1911. The provisions directly pertinent to the issues here are contained in the first codicil, which is dated March 23, 1909. By its terms he gave the shares of the capital stock of the Press Publishing Company, which were owned by him, and his shares of the Pulitzer Publishing Company, of St. Louis, in trust for the life of each of the two youngest of his sons, Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., and Herbert Pulitzer. There were directions to pay the income in certain fractional shares to his three sons39 and to certain other persons. To distinguish it from the residuary trust, the particular trust here has been called the “Newspaper Trust.” Its trustees are the testator’s three sons, Ralph Pulitzer, Herbert Pulitzer, and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
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