Mills v. Mills
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston,, sued herein as The Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston,, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the-15th day of November, 1899, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term, except from so-much thereof as directs that costs be paid to the several parties in this action out of the…
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Appeal by the defendant, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston,, sued herein as The Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston,, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the-15th day of November, 1899, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term, except from so-much thereof as directs that costs be paid to the several parties in this action out of the lands in New York State of which Dexter T.. Mills died seized, and that said costs be chargeable upon said lands..…
1Opinion of the Court
Rumsey, J.:
The plaintiffs are trastees under the will of Dexter T. Mills, deceased. Mr. Mills, a citizen and resident of the State of Massachusetts, died on the 6th of March, 1896, being the owner, among other property, of certain real estate in the city of New York. By his will, after certain legacies, he devised the remainder of his estate to the plaintiffs' as trustees to pay the income to La.vinia Frances Mills, his wife, Anna Dexter Mills, Helen Whittington Coolidge and Susan Lincoln Mills, his daughters, oy such of them as might be living at his death in equal shares for their lives,…
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- Williams v. . MontgomeryNew York Court of Appeals · 1896
- Hunter v. HunterNew York Supreme Court · 1853
- Emmons v. CairnsNew York Supreme Court · 1848
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