Van Wyck v. Bloodgood
New York Surrogate's Court
I. The bequest to testator’s daughter Ann Catharine, late Mrs. Yan "Wyck, of the equal fifth part of the testator’s personal estate (remaining after satisfying the provisions of the will), was vested in her, notwithstanding she did not survive until the death of the testator’s wife ; time being annexed in this case, not to the substance of the gift, but merely to its payment. 1st. The testator, before reaching the clause on which the question arises, had made, to each of the…
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I. The bequest to testator’s daughter Ann Catharine, late Mrs. Yan "Wyck, of the equal fifth part of the testator’s personal estate (remaining after satisfying the provisions of the will), was vested in her, notwithstanding she did not survive until the death of the testator’s wife ; time being annexed in this case, not to the substance of the gift, but merely to its payment. 1st. The testator, before reaching the clause on which the question arises, had made, to each of the children therein named, immediate and absolute bequests; and the whole frame of the will shows, that he designed them…
1Opinion of the Court
The Surrogate.
The Testator by the fourth, fifth, and seventh articles of his will, as modified by the codicil, gave his wife an -annuity of six hundred dollars, together with the use of his furniture, and of the leasehold premises, No. 70 -Murray Street, in the city of New-Yprk, for her life ; *165and by the eighth article, as modified by the codicil, he bequeathed to his daughter Maria Louisa, six hundred dollars per annum, until she should attain the age of fifteen years, and from that time to her arrival at lawful age, the sum of eight hundred dollars per annum. By the ninth clause, an annuity…
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