Legal Opinion
Burr v. Sherwood
New York Surrogate's Court
Decided December 15, 1854PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
The Surrogate.
The intestate was married to John B. Bennett, Nov. 13, 1825. At the time of her marriage, she was interested in the residuary estate of her grandfather, Daniel Nash, who had died shortly before, leaving a will. Certain property was reserved by the executors to pay an annuity bequeathed to the testator’s widow, and after her decease in September 1827, distribution being made, eight shares of stock in the Union Bank, in the city of New York, were set apart and allotted to the intestate, Sarah Bennett, as her share of that portion of the residuary estate of her grandfather. The…
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