Reynolds v. Reynolds
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Margaret Shearan and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 16th day of December, 1914, upon the decision of the court after a trial at the Kings County Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Rich, J.:
The defendants, with the exception of John Reynolds, appeal from a judgment of the Special Term in favor of the plaintiffs, in an action brought to impress a trust upon personal property, under the provisions of the 6th paragraph of the will of Reverend John McGuire, deceased, by which such property was bequeathed to his executor, the defendant Reynolds, in the following language:
“Item Sixth. I do hereby give and bequeath to my said Executor all of the personal property [of] which I may die pos*91sessed and which I may own at the time of my death in trust, however, and for the purposes…
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