Bowne v. . Colt
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a final judgment entered March 30, 1917, and from an interlocutory judgment entered May 20,1915, as modified by an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered March 4, 1916.
1Opinion of the CourtCollin, J.
At the outset there is necessarily presented a question of procedure. The action is to secure the partition of two parcels of real estate. The principal issue in the case was between Elizabeth B. Colt, a daughter, and Jessie D. Bowne, the widow, of Robert S. Bowne, and was whether or not the widow had an estate for her life in an undivided one-third of all the real estate involved. ' The decision of the Special Term was that she did not have the estate, and the consequent interlocutory judgment, entered May 29, 1915, so adjudged.' The Appellate Division, upon the appeal of the widow, by its…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Will v. . BarnwellNew York Court of Appeals · 1910