Legal Opinion
Ga Nun v. Palmer
New York Supreme Court
Decided November 14, 1913Published
Appeal by the defendant, Mary E. Palmer, individually and as executrix, etc., from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 16th day of September, 1912, upon the decision of the court after a trial at the Westchester Special Term.
1Opinion of the CourtBurr, J.
On November 28, 1899, Jane M. Sands, then past seventy years of age, signed a paper writing and delivered the same to Mary F. Ga Nun, the plaintiff in this action. It was in the form following:
“ I, Mary F. Ga Nun, do promise to care for Jane M. Sands in sickness and health as long as she lives. I, Jane M. Sands do promise to pay Mary F. Ga Nun Seventy dollars a month for the support of the house and her clothes as long as I live, and at my death she is to have Twenty thousand dollars that she will find in the Safe Deposit in New York and she is to take my keys and distribute the packages in…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Crawford v. . McCarthyNew York Court of Appeals · 1899
- Langdon v. . Astor's ExecutorsNew York Court of Appeals · 1857
- Ga Nun v. . PalmerNew York Court of Appeals · 1911
- Cover v. StemCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1887
- Robinson v. BrewsterIllinois Supreme Court · 1892
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