Rasquin v. Hamersley
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeals by the plaintiffs, William Rasquin, Jr., and another, as executors, etc., and by the defendants, William Pitt Mason and others, from various parts of a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of certain of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 25th day of August, 1911, upon the report of a referee. Judgment affirmed, with costs, on the opinion of James L. Bishop, Esq., Referee.
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Appeals by the plaintiffs, William Rasquin, Jr., and another, as executors, etc., and by the defendants, William Pitt Mason and others, from various parts of a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of certain of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 25th day of August, 1911, upon the report of a referee. Judgment affirmed, with costs, on the opinion of James L. Bishop, Esq., Referee. Jerks, P. J., Burr, Thomas, Woodward and Rich, JJ., concurred.
1Opinion of the Court
The following is the opinion of the referee:
James L. Bishop, Referee:
This is an action for an accounting by the trustees under the will of Louis C. Hamersley and for a distribution of his estate. The issues .presented call for a construction of certain provisions of the will. The testator died on the 3d day of May, 1883. *524By his will he gave all his estate, real and personal, to his executors in trust to receive the. income and apply it to the use of his wife during her life, and upon her death he gave the estate to his issue per stirpes. He then proceeded as follows: “In the event, however,…
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