Livingston v. New York Life Insurance & Trust Co.
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from special term, New York county. Action by Lewis H. Livingston against the New York Life Insurance & Trust Company and John McL. Hash, as executor of James B'. Livingston, deceased, and others. .Defendant.the New York Life Insurance & Trust Company appeals from a judgment for plaintiff entered on trial by the court without a jury.
1Opinion of the CourtVan Brunt, P. J.
In the year 1876 the defendant the Hew York Life Insurance & Trust Company held, as trustee-under the will of one James Boggs, certain real and personal property.. The beneficiary for life was Julia A. Livingston, the mother of the plaintiff and one James B. Livingston, now deceased. The terms of the trust were, in substance, that it should continue during the joint lives of Julia A. Livingston and Lewis Livingston, her hus*106band. In ease Lewis Livingston should die first, then the trust was to cease, and Julia A. Livingston was to take absolutely the whole property. In case Julia A. Livingston…
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