Legal Opinion
Lawrence v. Calam
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided July 22, 1922PublishedCited by 2 opinions
Submission of a controversy upon an agreed statement of facts pursuant to section 546 of the Civil Practice Act, for the purpose of obtaining a construction of the last will and testament of Sarah Elizabeth Lawrence, deceased.
1Opinion of the Court
Blackmar, P. J.:
Sarah Elizabeth Lawrence died in White Plains, Westchester county, September 1, 1915, at the age of sixty-six years. She left a last will and testament which has been duly admitted to probate by the Surrogate’s Court of the county of Westchester. The said will reads in part as follows:
“ Second, I give devise and bequeath to my son Theodore Calam Lawrence and to his heirs forever all my property both real and personal subject however to the payment and retention by my husband of the one half of the rents interest and income of all my said property both real and personal during…
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