Trustees of Amherst College v. Ritch
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered December 30, 1895, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiffs entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term.
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Appeal from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered December 30, 1895, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiffs entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term. Daniel B. Eayerweather, an old resident of the city of New York, died on the loth of November, 1890,- leaving a will, four codicils, an estate of several millions, consisting chiefly of personal property, and debts amounting to less than $10,000. He. left neither child nor descendant, but a widow and three nieces, his only heirs at law and next of kin,…
1Opinion of the Court
Vann J.
The appellants are of two classes, each hostile to the other and both hostile to the plaintiffs, who, with certain of the defendants, are respondents. One class comprises the executors of the widow and the next of kin, with the exception of Mrs. Beardsley, who unite in claiming that there was a secret trust in favor of the colleges named in the ninth article of the, will, or of beneficiaries to be appointed by Messrs. Bitch, Bulkley and Vaughan, created by the gift of the residuary estate to those gentlemen in connection with their promise to the testator to turn over their legacy to…
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