Grout v. Townsend
New York Supreme Court
On error from the supreme court. The plaintiffs in error brought ejectment in the supreme court against Townsend, and upon the trial the jury found a special verdict, upon which that court gave judgment for the defendant; and the plaintiffs thereupon brought error to this court. For the facts found by the verdict and the opinion of the court below see, 2 Hill, 554.
1Opinion of the Court
Porter, Senator.
The terms of the devise in favor of the testator’s daughter Rachel, the wife of J. Knickerbaclcer, are such as are appropriate to create an estate tail as to a moiety of the residue of the testator’s real estate, if it were now possible so to •limit an estate in lands. But as such an estate cannot now exist, it is insisted on behalf of the plaintiffs that the will ought to be so construed as to give the testator’s daughter only an estate for life, with remainder to her children. If this were so, the children would take as purchasers and not as the heirs of their mother, and…
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