Sentence examples for estate case from inspiring English sources

After they lost a real estate case in the 1980's, the Schmiers turned attacks on court shortcuts into a vocation.

The one major moment in his career, his daughter recalled, was a real estate case that he and a partner at the time fought all the way to the Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, decades ago.

One of the judges, Jules L. Spodek of State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, said in an interview yesterday that he had appointed Ravi Batra, then the party chairman's law partner, in a real estate case because his name was on the list and because he had heard that Mr. Batra knew real estate.

The lawyers arguing against the law themselves demurred when given the opportunity to label the motivations behind Doma: "I'm not saying it was animus or bigotry, I think it was based on a misunderstanding," said Roberta Kaplan, the lawyer for the original estate case that underlies the debate today.

This estate case revolves around H.J. Lutcher Stark H.J. Luchter Stark, sole heir to a pioneering 19th-century Texas timber fortune.

Even though it would be irrelevant to the estate case, Rebecca Stark Smith now hopes to get a court order exhuming bodies for DNA testing.

In one of the biggest estate cases in American history, the baron and his younger brother, Ugo, filed suit against the Cullen family in the early 1980's.

It is a lingering bastion of patronage, funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to lawyers who serve as guardians and conservators in thousands of estate cases.

Such legal divides on boards are unusual, said Dennis H. Greenstein, a former assistant state attorney general who specialized in real estate cases.

As Mr. Mullen and Mr. Williams watched for residents and rain pattered on the car, they explained how these real estate cases, which make up a small fraction of their business, reach them.

Then Mollie filed papers in the city's Surrogate's Court, which handles estate cases, claiming she'd made a discovery in her brother's cluttered office: that musty 1972 will.