Seaver v. Ransom
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Matt C. Ransom and another, as executors, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Franklin on the 21st day of July, 1917, upon the decision of the court after a trial before the court without a jury, with notice of an intention to bring up for review the decision of the court, the order overruling the demurrer and the interlocutory judgment based thereon.
1Opinion of the Court
Kellogg, P. J.:
Judge Beman and his wife, at the time we are interested in them, were of the ages of seventy-three and sixty-seven respectively. They never had any children. They resided at Malone, in a house belonging to her, which they valued at $10,000 but which was worth only $6,000. She also owned a little other property of the value of from $1,000 to $2,000. The trial court did not permit it to appear what his property 'was worth, but it was conceded that the value was more than the plaintiff’s claim. He was a lawyer, and for many years had been the county judge and surrogate of Franklin…
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