Orton v. Tannenbaum
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs, Josephine Orton and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 10th day of June, 1920, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Kangs County Special Term dismissing the complaint upon the merits, and also, as stated in the notice of appeal, from the said decision entered in said clerk’s office on the 12th day of April, 1920.
1Opinion of the Court
Kelly, J.:
Elizabeth Flanagan died in- Brooklyn on January 24, 1919. She was about forty-five years of age, had never married and had no relatives. She lived alone in an apartment maintained by her. From her girlhood she had been á working woman and had accumulated a small estate from her earnings and investments. She had two close friends, the plaintiffs, also unmarried working women, with whom she maintained personal association from the time they started to earn their living as young girls. They visited together, spent their summer vacations together and their relations were apparently…
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