Schlegel v. Roman Catholic Church of Most Holy Trinity
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Joseph' Sclilegel, from an order "of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term-' and entered in the office of the cleric of the county of Kings on the 12th day of December, 1907, permitting the plaintiff to discontinue his action on the payment of the taxable costs and an additional allowance of seventy-five dollars, the appeal being from so much of the order as grants the additional allowance.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodwaed, J.:
The plaintiff brought am action, the purpose of which was to declare invalid certain devises to the defendant in the last will and testament of the late Adam Scldegel, it being alleged that the defendant received more than one-half of the estate of deceased, in violation of the provisions of chapter 360 of the Laws of 1860. The pleadings are not set forth in the record before us, but the action was apparently an ordinary action under the statute, involving no difficult questions of law. The defendant put in an answer, making a general denial of the cause of action set up by the…
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