Cruikshank v. . Home for the Friendless
New York Court of Appeals
Gross-appeals from portions of judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, .entered upon an order made May 9, 1887, which affirmed a judgment, entered upon a decision of the court on trial'at Special Term. This action was brought to obtain a judicial construction of the will, and a codicil thereto, of John F. Delaplaine, deceased.
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Gross-appeals from portions of judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, .entered upon an order made May 9, 1887, which affirmed a judgment, entered upon a decision of the court on trial'at Special Term. This action was brought to obtain a judicial construction of the will, and a codicil thereto, of John F. Delaplaine, deceased. The testator died seized and possessed of a large amount of real and personal property, The will gave various devises and legacies, among them legacies to nine incorporated charitable institutions, named. The residuary clause…
1Opinion of the CourtFinch, J.
The testator devoted the bulk of his estate to charity. He carefully explained in his will that he left neither wife nor children; that his brother and sisters and nieces were already in comfortable, if not affluent, circumstances ; and so he felt at liberty, after some moderate gifts to them, to follow “ the impulses of his own heart ” and his “ sense of duty ” by devoting the rest of his property to the rescue and help of the unfortunate. Two of his nieces, Mrs. Schieffelin and Mrs. Beekman, accepted the disposition which he made, but his sister, Mrs. Chase, in her own right and as…
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