MATTER OF BANK OF NEW YORK

Thomas A. Ryan for appellants. Albert W. Meisel for Hopewell Society of Brooklyn et al., respondents. George W. Martin, Richard S. Emmet, John L. Merrill, Jr., and Eunice M. O'Neill for Bank of New York, respondent. Albert R. George for Violet Tangeman Cottrell, respondent. Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney-General ( P. Hodges Combier and Wendell P. Brown of counsel), for unknown beneficiaries, respondent. James N. Vaughan and Jeremiah P. Lyons for Bank of New York, respondent. Peter Keber, C. Alexander Capron and Albert B. Maginnes for State Bankers Association, amicus curiae, in support of respondents' position.