Cornell University v. Fiske
Supreme Court of the United States
error to the supreme court of the STATE OF NEW YORK. Mr. Justice Blatchford stated the case.as follows: This is a proceeding which originated in the surrogate’s court of the county of Tompkins, in the State of New York.
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error to the supreme court of the STATE OF NEW YORK. Mr. Justice Blatchford stated the case.as follows: This is a proceeding which originated in the surrogate’s court of the county of Tompkins, in the State of New York. John McGraw, a resident of Ithaca, in that county, died' May 4, 1877, leaving as his only child and heir Jennie McGraw, who, on the 14th of July, 1880, at Berlin, Germany, intermarried with Willard Eiske, and died September-30, 1881, at Ithaca, her place of residence, after reaching the age of . 41,. without issue, leaving her husband surviving her. John McGraw left a last…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Blatchford,
having stated the case as above . reported, delivered the opinion of the court.
The questions for consideration here fall within a narrow compass, for they can embrace only federal questions..
The Court of Appeals, in its opinion, discussed only two questions, (1) whether Cornell University had power to take and hold property of the value of'more than $3,000,000 ; and (2) if it had no such power, whether it held real and personal property in the aggregate up to such limit, at the time of the death of Mrs. Fiske,’ on the 30th of September, 1881..
The first question was…
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