Langdon v. . Astor's Executors

The action was brought in the Superior Court of New-York city, to obtain a direction of that court, requiring the defendants, the executors of the late J. J. Astor, to set apart funds for the satisfaction of two several legacies, bequeathed by the deceased to the plaintiff, his daughter, each being for 'the interest, for her life, of the sum of $100,000. The defence was that both legacies had been satisfied by advances made by the testator, in his lifetime, to the legatee. The following facts appeared from the pleadings and testimony: Mr. Astor died on the 29th of March, 1848, having executed…