Smith v. . Allen
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal by the defendants, Sarah F. M. Greene and Frank Allen, from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered October 15, 1898, which affirmed a judgment, construing the will of William H. Allen, deceased, entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term. This action was brought to obtain a judicial construction of the will of William H. Allen, deceased.
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Appeal by the defendants, Sarah F. M. Greene and Frank Allen, from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered October 15, 1898, which affirmed a judgment, construing the will of William H. Allen, deceased, entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term. This action was brought to obtain a judicial construction of the will of William H. Allen, deceased. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. Adoption, or the act of adoption, is the act by which relations of paternity and affiliation' are recognized as…
1Opinion of the CourtHaight, J.
William H. Allen died at his residence in the city of Brooklyn, on the eighteenth day of February, 1890, leaving a'last will and testament dated February twenty-fifth, 1875, with a codicil thereto dated March fifth, 1879, which will and codicil have been admitted to probate in the county of Kings. The testator, after making certain specific bequests, including a legacy of ten thousand dollars to the appellant Greene, whom he describes as his adopted daughter, gave the income of all his residuary estate both real and personal to his widow during life, or until she should again marry, and then…
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