Remington v. WalKer
New York Court of Appeals
This action" was brought hy plaintiff as legatee under the will of Daniel J. McPherson, deceased, against the surviving. executors and the executor of James M. Walker, a deceased executor, for an accounting, and to compel defendants to pay plaintiff a balance óf her legacy alleged to be unpaid. The opinion is given in full.
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This action" was brought hy plaintiff as legatee under the will of Daniel J. McPherson, deceased, against the surviving. executors and the executor of James M. Walker, a deceased executor, for an accounting, and to compel defendants to pay plaintiff a balance óf her legacy alleged to be unpaid. The opinion is given in full. “ Daniel J. McPherson died in August, 1857, leaving a last will and testament, by which he gave to the plaintiff, who was "his granddaughter and an infant about two years of age, a legacy of $2,500. That sum was to be kept invested by his executors, they paying out' of its…
1Opinion of the Court
Finch, J.,
roads for modification of judgment, and for affirmance as modified.
' All concur.
Judgment accordingly
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