Townsend v. Rackham
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from special term, Orleans county. Action by Esther C. Townsend and Willard Brown, assignee of the administrator of the estate of Maria Leach, deceased, against Joshua Rackham and others, to establish a trust in certain real estate. From a judgment dismissing the complaint on the merits, plaintiffs .appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtMacomber, J.
The maiden name of the plaintiff Esther C. 'Townsend was Esther 0. Lutts. The plaintiff Willard Brown is the assignee of the administrator of the estate of Maria Leach, who -died July 12,1890, in the state of Iowa. These two persons, Esther -0. Lutts and Maria Leach, were grandchildren of Catherine Farnham, hereinafter mentioned. On the 26th day of September, 1857, Catherine Farnham, who was 73 years of age and a widow, deeded to her two grandchildren, the defendants Almeron 0. Wilson and Valentine A. Wilson, her farm in the town of Carlton, Orleans •county, 2T. Y., and received back from the…
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