Johnstone v. O'Connor
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Ruth A. Johnstone, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 18th day of August, 1896, upon the report of a referee.
1Opinion of the Court
Cullen, J.:
On the 21st day of November, 1883, one Owen O’Connor died intestate, seized of several pieces of real estate situate in the city of New York, worth more than $500,000. He left him- surviving a widow and five - children..; the plaintiff, Ruth (then Unmarried), Mary, Josephine Slattery, James O’Connor and the defendant, Eugene F. O’Connor. Letters of administration on the estate of the deceased were issued to the widow. Her application for the letters was resisted by. her daughter Josephine Slattery, who appeared by counsel. There, appears' to have been some antagonism between, this…
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