Goodwin v. . Coddington
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered February 7, 1895, which overruled exceptions to a decision of the court on trial at Special Term, upon which an interlocutory judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff ¡November 13, 1894, and denied a motion for a new trial under section 1001 of the Code of Civil Procedure. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from an order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered February 7, 1895, which overruled exceptions to a decision of the court on trial at Special Term, upon which an interlocutory judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff ¡November 13, 1894, and denied a motion for a new trial under section 1001 of the Code of Civil Procedure. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The intention of the testatrix in the 2d clause of the 3d codicil was merely tO' devise life estates to her own surviving children…
1Opinion of the CourtO’Brien, J.
This action was brought to procure a judicial construction of the will of Matilda E. Coddington, who died in the year 1882, leaving a will dated in 1869, with codicils, the last of which was made in 1876. Among the property owned by the testatrix at the time of her death was a three-fourths interest in certain real estate at No. 17 Wall street in the city of New York, which was disposed of by the following clause of the will:
“ I give, devise and bequeath to my children, Jefferson, Gilbert 8., Clifford, Matilda E., and Louisa, each an undivided fifth part of all my interest in the building and…
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