Post v. . Mason
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the fourth judicial department, entered upon an order made December 30, 1881, which affirmed a judgment in favor of defendants, entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term, and affirmed an order denying a motion for a new trial. (Reported below, 26 Hun, 187.) The nature of the action and the material facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDanfobth, J.
John Post made his will on the 13th day of September, 1874, and thereby, after giving to each child $40,000, to his wife the use for life of $40,000, and the homestead, with remainder to his children, $20,000 to the Ontario Orphan Asylum, to a nephew $3,000, smaller sums to his brother, to a clergyman and others, to his wife’s mother for life a certain house and lot, with remainder to his heirs, provided for the improvement of his father’s burial place and the erection of certain monuments, and then appointed Alonzo Wynkoop and Bradley Wynkoop, both his cousins, and Francis O. Mason, his…
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