Wetmore v. . Wetmore
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered upon an order made June 15, 1894, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered upon an order made June 15, 1894, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The judgment appealed from subverts the will of Samuel Wetmore, in effect abrogates the perfectly legal provisions made by him for the support of his son William B., and displaces the trustee, Sarah Taylor Wetmore, while at the same time adjudging that there is…
1Opinion of the CourtHaight, J.
This action was brought to obtain a judgment applying the accumulated income of a trust estate created for the benefit of the defendant William B. Wetmore in satisfaction of the plaintiff’s judgment for alimony due, and which may accrue to her in the future.
The plaintiff was his wife, and on the 1st day of April, 1892, obtained a judgment of absolute divorce in the Supreme Court which required him to pay her as alimony the sum of three thousand dollars per year, and the further sum of one thousand dollars per year for each of her three infant children until they should respectively become of…
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