Dougherty v. Thompson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, John 0. Thompson and others, in the first above-entitled action, from a final judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York, on the 1st day of December,, 1899, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term, with notice of an intention to bring up for review upon such appeal an interlocutory judgment entered in said clerk’s office on the 30th day of June, 1899. Appeal…
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Appeal by the defendants, John 0. Thompson and others, in the first above-entitled action, from a final judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York, on the 1st day of December,, 1899, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term, with notice of an intention to bring up for review upon such appeal an interlocutory judgment entered in said clerk’s office on the 30th day of June, 1899. Appeal by the defendants, John C. Thompson and others, in the second above-entitled action, from a final judgment of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, J.:
The first above-entitled action was brought for a construction of the1 9th clause of the will of William D. Thompson, deceased. The testa*459tor died in the year 1874, unmarried, and without issue. He left a large estate, and when the will was made had no brother or sister living. He had, however, certain nephews and nieces, the children of a deceased brother, who, upon his decease, would be his heirs at law, and it was these nephews and nieces and his grandnephews and grandnieces that were to receive his estate. The testator’s general scheme seems to have been to give a life…
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