In re the Estate of Huyot
In a proceeding, inter alia, to recover money allegedly owed to the petitioner by the decedent under purported written and oral contracts, the petitioner appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of an order and decree (one paper) of the Surrogate’s Court, Putnam County (Sweeny, S.), dated September 23, 1999, as dismissed the petition.
Ordered that the order and decree is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs payable to the respondents-respondents by the appellant personally.
The appellant erroneously contends that a letter dated February 12, 1986, written by the decedent directing his bank to “put at the disposition” of the appellant the sum of $125,000 “in case [he] died unexpectedly [sic]” was a gift. The letter did not constitute a gift to the appellant because the decedent did not intend to transfer any present interest, but, rather, intended the letter to have no effect until after his death (see, Gruen v Gruen,