Roessle v. Roessle
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Nelly Taylor Roessle, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 11th day of November, 1913, dismissing the complaint upon the merits upon the decision of the court after a trial at the New York Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Clarke, J.:
The action was brought to admeasure the plaintiff’s dower in certain real estate in New York city of which her husband, Theophilus E. Roessle, died seized. The testator died on August 10, 1904.' At the time of his death, and for twenty-five years prior thereto, he was a resident of and domiciled in the *346city of Washington, D. C. He left surviving a widow, the plaintiff, and two children by a former marriage, the defendants herein.
On May 18, 1904, he executed a will which had been drawn by a Washington attorney. This will gave to his wife absolutely all the furniture, bric-a-brac,…
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- In Re the Final Accounting of FrazerNew York Court of Appeals · 1883
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