In re Ryder
New York Court of Chancery
This was an appeal from an order of the vice chancellor of the first circuit. The appellant, who was a young gentleman of the age of twenty years, presented a petition to the vice chancellor, by his next friend, stating in substance that his grandmother, by her will, gave to her daughter, the mother of the petitioner, the rents and profits and income of her real and personal estate for life, for her separate use, free from the control of her then husband, or any future…
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This was an appeal from an order of the vice chancellor of the first circuit. The appellant, who was a young gentleman of the age of twenty years, presented a petition to the vice chancellor, by his next friend, stating in substance that his grandmother, by her will, gave to her daughter, the mother of the petitioner, the rents and profits and income of her real and personal estate for life, for her separate use, free from the control of her then husband, or any future husband; with remainder to her surviving children and to the issue of such.as should have died leaving.issue, atherdeath;…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
It is unnecessary to look into the affidavits in this case, or to inquire whether the mother of the appellant had good and sufficient reasons for withholding a support from the petitioner to enable him to complete his professional education; for, this court has clearly no jurisdiction to make any order in the case, upon this petition. There is no pretence of claim on the part of the petitioner to a support out of the income of this estate, under the will of his grandmother. There is an absolute gift from the testatrix, to her daughter, of the whole income of the estate for…
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