Van Ness v. Ransom
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Deborah Van Ness, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Nassau on the 26th day of December, 1913, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, both sides having moved for the direction of a verdict at the close of the case, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 5th day of January, 1914, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial…
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Appeal by the plaintiff, Deborah Van Ness, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Nassau on the 26th day of December, 1913, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, both sides having moved for the direction of a verdict at the close of the case, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 5th day of January, 1914, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Thomas, J.:
The plaintiff, at the time of the trial ninety-two years of age, appears to have recovered alimony at the rate of $600 per year awarded her on May 23, 1867, in a judgment of divorce by default against her husband, Cornelius Henry Van Ness, who died June 25, 1911. On May 24, 1867, she was preparing to sail the next day for Europe, and did so sail in company with Mr. Parsons, then about twenty years of age, and her daughter, Alice, then about nineteen years of age. The party remained abroad until May, 1872. Parsons married the daughter in April, 1874, and the mother continuously…
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