Eckert v. Wilklow

This is an action brought to obtain partition and sale of certain premises in the town of Marbletown, Ulster county. The only question litigated before me has been as to the parties who took under a certain clause of the will of one John D. Wilklow who died on February 22, 1881, seized of the premises in question.

The premises described in the complaint were devised in that will as follows: “ I give and bequeath to my daughter Sarah Eliza Wilklow all (describing the premises in question), to have and to hold the same forever, if the said Sarah Eliza dies with living issue, but if she dies…