St. John v. Andrews Institute for Girls
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Separate Appeals by the defendants the Smithsonian Institution and another and by the defendants Norman C. Andrews .and others from different portions of a judgment of the Supreme Court in. favor of the plaintiff and certain of the defendants, entered in the office of the cleric of the county of ..New York on the 25th day of January, 1906, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the'New York Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This is an action by the executor of and trustee under the last will and testament of Wallace 0. Andrews, deceased, for a construction of the will of his testator. The will was executed, on the 12th day of November, 1891, and the testator died in the city of New York on the 7th day of April, 1899, leaving real property in the States of New York, New Jersey and Virginia, and certain personal property. At the time he executed.the will he had a wife living, and he designated her as an executrix of his will, but she perished with him in the destruction of her house, No. ,2 East…
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