Meeker v. Draffen
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the- defendant, Hellie Meeker, individually and as administratrix, etc., from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in .favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Delaware on the 27th day of September, 1909, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the.Delaware Special Term, directing a sale in the above-entitled partition action.
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton, J. :
Hiram Meeker died in 1889, leaving a last will and testament by which, amongst other provisions, he bequeathed and devised by the *5383d paragraph the farm upon which he and his son and family resided, and the stock and implements thereon, to his son Charles (t., subject to the payment by such son to his widow, this plaintiff, of a yearly annuity of one hundred dollars, which annuity was made a lien upon the real property. The will contained the following additional provision : “ Fifth. I do further provide that in case my son Charles G. Meeker should die- before my wife, then and in…
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