Rice v. Halsey
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Charles D. Halsey and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in.favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 30th day of November, 1912, upon the report of a referee.
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
On the.!9th of June, 1899, John Smith Bice, husband of the plaintiff, assigned to one John Drohan, as trustee, a mortgage for $15,000. The purpose of the assignment, according to provisions incorporated therein, was to keep the principal invested, subject to Bice’s approval, and pay the income derived therefrom to him during his life, and after his death to transfer the principal to his wife, if she were then living, and if not, to make other disposition of it which it is unnecessary here to mention. One of its provisions was as follows: “And it is expressly provided that the…
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