Everdell v. Hill
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Elizabeth Hill and Jacob F. Miller, as -executors and trustees under the last will and testament of Mary L. Everdell, deceased, 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 24th day of Juné, 1899, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Hew York Special Term, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 20th day of…
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Appeal by the defendants, Elizabeth Hill and Jacob F. Miller, as -executors and trustees under the last will and testament of Mary L. Everdell, deceased, 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 24th day of Juné, 1899, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Hew York Special Term, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 20th day of June, 1899, denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes. Matilda Everdell died July 4, 1881.…
1Opinion of the Court
Rumsey, J.:
The plaintiffs and some of the defendants are nieces of Mary L. Everdell, who died in 1897, leaving a will of real and personal property, of which the defendants Jacob F. Miller and Elizabeth Hill are executors and trustees.
Mary L. Everdell had several brothers and sisters. Some of them were married and had children. Mary Everdell and her two sisters, Matilda and Catherine, were maiden ladies, each possessed of property, the precise amount of which does not appear. It is claimed by the plaintiffs that in the year 1879 the three sisters, Catherine, Matilda and Mary, made an…
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