Jefferson v. Bangs
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal hy the plaintiff, Lucy A. Jefferson, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Tompkins on the 27th day of February, 1914, upon the decision of the court dismissing the complaint after a trial before the court without a jury.
1Opinion of the Court
Howard, J.:
William King died in 1856. At the time of his death he was seized in fee of a farm of seventy-six acres of land, the subject of this controversy. The farm was covered by a purchase-money mortgage for $1,510. King left a will hy which he gave the use of one-third of his farm to his wife during her life, and the use of the other two-thirds to Hastings A. King, *103whom he styled his adopted son, but who was, in fact, neither an adopted son nor a relative. He devised the fee of his real estate to Lucy Ann King (now Lucy Ann J elferson) a daughter of Hastings A. King. She is now the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Taylor v. . MillardNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
- Dunn v. . City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1912
- Boyer v. . EastNew York Court of Appeals · 1900
- Jefferson v. . BangsNew York Court of Appeals · 1909
- Ward v. IsbillNew York Supreme Court · 1893
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Barber v. RoweAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1922
- Conklin v. JablonskiNew York Supreme Court · 1971
- Harris v. MoskowitzAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1932