Legal Opinion
Fayerweather v. Ritch
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
Decided July 18, 1898PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WHEELER, District Judge.
This suit is brought by the plaintiffs, citizens of Iowa, against the defendants, Ritch, Bulkley, and Vaughan, of New York, to reach assets of the estate of Daniel B. Fayerweather, late of New York, alleged to be now in the hands of the defendants as executors or trustees, and to belong In part to the plaintiffs as next of kin, and has been heard on demurrer to the bill. By a law of New York passed April 13, 1860 (Laws 1860, p. 607, c. 360):
“No person having a husband, wife, child or parent shall by his or her last will and testament devise or bequeath to aiiy…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Cromwell v. County of SacSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Hovey v. ElliottSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
- Trustees of Amherst College v. RitchNew York Court of Appeals · 1897
- Miles v. CaldwellSupreme Court of the United States · 1865
- O'Beirne v. . Allegheny Kinzua R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1897
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Fayerweather v. RitchCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1899
- Fayerweather v. RitchU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1898