Wesleyan University v. Troy Conference Academy

The Surrogate. — The testatrix, Mrs. Lucretia Van Pelt, by her will makes fifteen bequests, the largest number to religious societies, and bequeaths the residue of her estate, real and personal, to “The Wesleyan University of Middletown, Connecticut,” and to “The Hew York Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.” These societies are of the number taking general legacies; the testatrix directing one thousand dollars to be paid to the former, and fourteen hundred dollars to the latter. All the legacies have *291been promptly paid by the executors, except the one under consideration.

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