Bray v. O'Rourke
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Ellen M. Bray, as administratrix, etc., of John Bray, deceased, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county ot Kings on the 8th day of December, 1902, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Kings County Trial Term, a jury having been waived.
1Opinion of the Court
Jenks, J.:
The action is for a conversion of bonds. The defendant makes general denial, and further pleads that John Bray, the intestate of plaintiff, left the bonds with him for the support of his mother, Margaret Bray, with directions to deliver them to her upon the death of John Bray. During the trial the parties waived the jury, and submitted the case to the court. The court dismissed the complaint and adjudged that the bonds must be delivered to the administrator of Margaret Bray on the ground that John Bray had made a gift of them, inter vimos, to Margaret Bray. Margaret Bray died after…
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