Smith v. . Parsons
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from certain parts of a final judgment of the Special Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial district, entered upon the report of a referee appointed to take an accounting after an interlocutory judgment. The -action was brought by the executors of the will of ¡Richard H. Campbell, deceased, for a judicial settlement .of their accounts, and for instructions in reference to certain accumulations in their hands as trustees.
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Appeal from certain parts of a final judgment of the Special Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial district, entered upon the report of a referee appointed to take an accounting after an interlocutory judgment. The -action was brought by the executors of the will of ¡Richard H. Campbell, deceased, for a judicial settlement .of their accounts, and for instructions in reference to certain accumulations in their hands as trustees. An appeal from the interlocutory judgment was taken by the infant defendant, ¡Rosalie Coe Campbell, to the General Term, where the judgment of the Special…
1Opinion of the CourtBartlett, J.
Richard L. Campbell, the testator, died leaving a widow and two daughters, Martha and Eosalie, both of tender years. He left a large personal estate, the half of which was set apart in trust for his wife, and the other half given in trust for his daughters.. So much of the provisions of the will creating the trust in favor of ihe daughters as is material to consider reads as follows, viz.:
Third. “ I authorize and empower my executors to divide the other one equal half part or share of my estate into as many equal shares as I may leave children me surviving, and to invest and re-in vest each…
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