Sanger v. . Rothschild
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered upon an order made November, 20, 1888, directing a judgment in favor of defendant upon a case submitted under sections 1279 and 1280 of the Code of Civil Procedure. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered upon an order made November, 20, 1888, directing a judgment in favor of defendant upon a case submitted under sections 1279 and 1280 of the Code of Civil Procedure. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The law relating to endowments as it existed at the time of Eothschild’s decease and not that in force when the declaration in question was made, is the law which governs the disposition of the $1,000 benefit. (Durian v. Central Verein, 7…
1Opinion of the CourtEarl, J.
In 1881, the defendant’s intestate, William Eothschild, who was then unmarried, was a member of a mutual aid association known as the Independent Order of Free Sons of Israel, and he made a certain declaration in writing whereby he directed that the endowment of $1,000 provided for by the laws of the association should, upon his decease, be paid to his uncle and aunt Simon and Yandel Sanger. In 1881, he married the defendant, and he died in 1888 without having made any other disposition of the $1,000. The plaintiff now claims one-half of the $1,000, under the disposition thereof made by the…
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