Sultan of Turkey v. . Tiryakian
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered May 29, 1914, which reversed an interlocutory judgment of Special Term sustaining a demurrer to the complaint and overruled said demurrer. The defendants demurred to the plaintiff’s complaint upon the ground “that it does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action.”
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Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered May 29, 1914, which reversed an interlocutory judgment of Special Term sustaining a demurrer to the complaint and overruled said demurrer. The defendants demurred to the plaintiff’s complaint upon the ground “that it does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action.” The Appellate Division has certified that in its opinion a question of law is involved which ought to he reviewed by this court. The question certified is: “Does the complaint state facts…
1Opinion of the CourtChase, J.
The complaint alleges that one Hovhannes S. Tavshanjian died a resident of the county of New York on the 22d day of July, 1907, leaving a last will by which he appointed among others the defendants the executors-thereof; that said will has been duly admitted to probate and that letters testamentary have been duly issued to the defendants as executors of said will; that the decedent left a personal estate amounting to at least $500,000; that by said will he gave to his mother two policies of insurance on his life for $5,000 each, one in the Mutual Life Insurance Company and one in the…
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