Vanderveer v. McKane

This is a suit for the construction of the will of Aletta M. Vanderveer, who died in Brooklyn in February, 1887, within two months after the execution of such will, leaving her father surviving her. The controversy relates to the eleventh and twelfth articles of the will. By the eleventh article, the testatrix bequeaths her executors the sum of $5,500, to be paid over by them as therein directed; $500 each to the pastors of certain Roman Catholic churches therein named, in the city of Brooklyn, city of New York, and village of Monticello, in Sullivan county, and $25 each to the pastors of…