Crawford v. Dexter
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Clarissa Treadwell Dexter and others, from parts of a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the respondents, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 6th day of July, 1916, upon the report of a referee appointed to hear and determine the issues.
1Opinion of the Court
Dowling, J.:
Henry Dexter died on July 11, 1910, leaving a last will and testament executed October 6, 1906, and eight codicils thereto, all of which were duly admitted to probate by the Surrogate’s Court of New York county. He left him surviving as sole heir at law his daughter, Clarissa Treadwell Dexter, who has been continually of unsound mind for many years and who was confined in Bloomingdale Asylum as early as 1883, remaining there until 1894, since which time for the greater part of the period she has been residing and cared for in her father’s home, and since his death in the family…
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