New York, Ontario & Western Railway Co. v. Livingston
New York Court of Appeals
N. Y., O. & W. Ry. Co. v. Livingston, 206 App. Div. 589, modified. Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered November 23, 1923, which affirmed a final order of Special Term confirming the report of commissioners in condemnation proceedings.
1Opinion of the CourtCardozo, J.
Edward Livingston, who died in 1864, devised to his nephew Charles Octavius Livingston a farm of two hundred acres at Livingston Manor, Sullivan county, New York, “ said farm and its appurtenances to be used and enjoyed by my said nephew during the term of his natural life, and at his decease to descend to the eldest son of my said nephew who shall then be living; and if my said nephew shall die leaving no son, then the said farm shall descend to the daughters of my said nephew, who shall then be living, and the issue of such daughters as may before that time have died,” with a gift over to…
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