New York Trust Co. v. Brewster
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, begun as a bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court for the county of Bristol on December 11, 1918, by the executors of the will of J. Harsen Purdy, late of the city of New York, and, after the appointment of the plaintiffs on March 14, 1919, as ancillary executors of that will by the Probate Court of the county of Bristol, amended into an action at law based upon the statutes of the State of New York described in the opinion.
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Contract, begun as a bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court for the county of Bristol on December 11, 1918, by the executors of the will of J. Harsen Purdy, late of the city of New York, and, after the appointment of the plaintiffs on March 14, 1919, as ancillary executors of that will by the Probate Court of the county of Bristol, amended into an action at law based upon the statutes of the State of New York described in the opinion. In the Superior Court, the action was heard by McLaughlin, J., without a jury. Material evidence and facts agreed upon, findings and rulings by the judge,…
1Opinion of the CourtJenney, J.
The defendants’ exceptions were taken in an action to enforce liability, created by the code of New York. The plain*157tiffs, as executors of the will of J. Harsen Purdy, late of the city of New York, allege that they are entitled to have a judgment against the defendants based upon an unpaid claim which Purdy had against Charles O. Brewster, who died intestate and domiciled in that city on June 26, 1912, to the extent that the assets of said Brewster were paid or distributed to the defendants.
The defendants are minors, and were residents in New York when said Brewster died, but removed to this…
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