Legal Opinion
McDonald v. Sargent
New York Supreme Court
Decided September 15, 1923PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSawyer, J.
The money involved in this controversy belonged to plaintiff’s .intestate, Mary McDonald, and was the accumulated *438savings of a long series of years from wages earned by her as a domestic servant. She was about sixty-six to sixty-eight years old at the time of her death, which occurred November 17, 1919, and resulted directly from pneumonia, although preceded by a period of declining health which had existed for more than a year. This plaintiff (her brother) and various nieces and nephews, of whom the defendant Sargent, at whose home she died, was one, survived her.
•Two days before her death…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- In Re the Probate of the Will of SmithNew York Court of Appeals · 1884
- In Re the Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of BolinNew York Court of Appeals · 1892
- Dobie v. . ArmstrongNew York Court of Appeals · 1899
- Clary v. FitzgeraldAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1913
- In re of Appraisal of the Estate of BuchananAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1918
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Harrington v. EmmermanCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1950
- Wallace v. RileyCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1937
- Havens v. HavensNew York Supreme Court · 1925
- In re Judicial Settlement of the Account of FenelonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1932
- In re the Estate of ChorneyNew York Surrogate's Court · 1971
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