Legal Opinion
Van Alstyne v. Tuffy
New York Supreme Court
Decided May 15, 1918PublishedCited by 34 opinions
Action in equity.
1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.
It is conclusively established in the testimony that on February 4, 1917, Anna E. Weirich Tuffy, plaintiffs’ testatrix, was murdered by her husband, John Tuffy, defendants’ intestate, who immediately thereafter took his own life. At this time Anna E. Weirich Tuffy was forty-five years of age and John Tuffy was thirty-six years of age; and they were married June 16, 1916.
On or about June 21, 1916, there was conveyed to John Tuffy and Anna Tuffy, his wife, a house and lot in the city of Eochester by a single conveyance, and they thereupon became seized and possessed of this property as tenants…
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