Ransom v. Cutting
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal from Special Term, New York County. Action by Rastus S. Ransom and others against Robert L. Cutting, impleaded with the Farmers’ Loan & Trust Company. From a decree in favor of plaintiffs, defendant Cutting appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMcLAUGHLIN, J.
In January, 1894, one Robert L. Cutting died, leaving a will by which he gave all of his property, with the exception of an annuity to his widow, to one of his sons, James De Wolfe Cutting. The other son, Robert L. Cutting, the appellant, feeling that he had been unjustly treated, and that the instrument offered for probate did not correctly express his father’s wish, retained the plaintiffs, a firm of lawyers, to oppose the probate of the will. He was unable financially to pay the plaintiffs, and, for the purpose of securing them for the services to be rendered in his behalf, he entered into…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Fischer-Hansen v. . Bklyn. Heights R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1903
- In Re the Accounting of FitzsimonsNew York Court of Appeals · 1903
- Stedwell v. HartmannAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1902
- Begly v. WeddigenAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903