Ellis v. Kelsey
New York Supreme Court
Action to determine title to real property and for an accounting.
1Opinion of the Court
Bíter, J.
Plaintiff prays to be adjudged the sole heir of George M. Chapman, deceased, and for an accounting. George M. Chapman died September 30, 1887, leaving a large amount of real property in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and also leaving a will, which was duly probated in the Surrogate’s Court of New York county, whereby he left the bulk of his property to his illegitimate son, Hawley Chapman, and the latter’s wife, Cora Chapman, and to the survivor, with the remainder to their children, if any. This will makes no provision in case Hawley and Cora Chapman should die without children, and there…
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