Coffin v. Leech
New York Supreme Court
Action to establish a lien upon the interest in real estate held by defendants for a proportionate amount, of a mortgage paid by the plaintiff and her sisters, and to enforce payment thereof.
1Opinion of the CourtBeekman, J.
Ezra Bucknam died seized of an undivided half of the premises in question, leaving a will- under which he devised said .property for the life of his wife, with directions to his executors to divide the same, upon her decease among his four children, Julia Ann Coffin, William H. Bucknam, Elmira J. Bucknam and Helen B. Yiele, with the proviso that if either should have departed this life without leaving issue, the share of the one so dying should belong to the survivor or survivors of them. The testator appointed his wife and his sons-in-law, Francis A. Coffin, Samuel Leech and Hiram Y. Mason,…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Freeman v. . AuldNew York Court of Appeals · 1870
- Everson v. . McMullenNew York Court of Appeals · 1889
- Wile v. . WilsonNew York Court of Appeals · 1883