Wells v. Squires
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Grant Squires and another, as executors, etc., 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 Hew York on the 17th day of September, 1906, upon'the decision -of the court rendered after a trial at the Hew York Special. Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
This action calls in question the validity of the 6tli article of the will of Henry M. Wells, deceased, and also the 3d article of the codicil to the will.
The 6th article of the will reads as follows : “I give, devise and bequeath unto Grant Squires, in trust, all the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, to the following uses and purposes: (l)-To pay over therefrom unto my wife,- Alma L. Wells, the sum of Twenty-one hundred dollars annually, in monthly payments of one hundred and seventy-five dollars eacli, during the term of hér natural life (2) To pay over therefrom unto my…
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