McCaughal v. Ryan
New York Supreme Court
MOTION by the plaintiff for a new trial, after a judgment for the defendant on a trial before a justice of the court, at the circuit, without a jury. The action was brought for the recovery of real estate. The facts are fully detailed, in the opinion of Strong, presiding justice, and need not be here repeated.
1Opinion of the CourtS. B. Strong, P. J.
This action was instituted to recover a tract of land in the village of Newburgh, in the county of Orange, of which one George McCaughal died seised in fee in 1842, on the ground that it had escheated to this state through the defect of heirs of McCaughal and the invalidity of an attempted devise of it to Bishop (now Archbishop) Hughes. McCaughal had no descendants; he was an illegitimate child, born in Ireland and naturalized under our laws, and his mother, if she is still living, and all her relations so far as are known, are aliens. He made .a will after he had been naturalized, containing…
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