Levy v. . Levy
New York Court of Appeals
The action was by the acting executors of Uriah P. Levy deceased, to obtain a judicial construction- of parts of his will. The testator was domiciled and died in the city of ¡New York, in March, 1862, leaving a widow surviving him, and brothers and sisters, nephews and nieces, his heirs-at-law and next of kin.
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The action was by the acting executors of Uriah P. Levy deceased, to obtain a judicial construction- of parts of his will. The testator was domiciled and died in the city of ¡New York, in March, 1862, leaving a widow surviving him, and brothers and sisters, nephews and nieces, his heirs-at-law and next of kin. At his death, he owned real estate in the city of ¡New York, valued at $20.0,000, and his personal estate was inventoried at $131,000. He also had a farm at Monticello, in the State of Virginia, consisting of between 2,000 and 3,000 acres, and another estate, called the “ Washington…
1Opinion of the CourtWeight, J.
By his will, the bulk of the testator’s estate is appropriated to the foundation and endowment of a school in the State of Virginia for educating, as practical farmers, children between the ages of twelve and sixteen years, of warrant officers of the United States navy; and contingently, for educating the children between those ages of certain Hebrew congregations in the cities of Hew York, Philadelphia and Eichmond, and children of like ages of all other Hebrew and Christian denominations. It is, in terms, provided that the institution must be kept within the revenue derived from the…
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