Canfield v. Canfield

Stevens, Y. C.

The questions to he decided arise upon the will and codicil of Alfred W. Canfield, who died in 1871.

By the codicil he directed his executors to reserve the sum of $5,000, to be expended by them in building a monument. He recited that he was part owner of a lot in Evergreen Cemetery, and-he authorized his executors to erect it upon that lot, or, if they should not deem it advisable to erect it there, upon another lot to be purchased by them. He also authorized expenditure for a fence and certain inscriptions, and'he concluded as follows: “I authorize and empower my executors and…