Eisner v. Curiel

The plaintiff seeks a partition and sale of life interests in the house 322 East Fourteenth, street, New York city, and certain personalty. The controversy is between the plaintiff and the defendant Mary E. Curiel, who is his sister. Their mother, Eliza Eisner, died June 3, 1885, leaving a will by which she devised to the brother and sister the dwelling-house during their joint lives and the lifetime of the survivor, and upon their deaths directed her executors to sell the same and divide the proceeds among their issue and her remaining children, six in number, one of whom died before her…