In re Taylor
New York Court of Chancery
This case came before the court upon exceptions to the report of a master, to whom it was referred to inquire and report who were the next of kin and heirs apparent of B„ Taylor, a lunatic, and also to report who was or were the most proper person or persons to be appointed the committee of his estate.
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This case came before the court upon exceptions to the report of a master, to whom it was referred to inquire and report who were the next of kin and heirs apparent of B„ Taylor, a lunatic, and also to report who was or were the most proper person or persons to be appointed the committee of his estate. From the testimony before the master it appeared that Taylor was married to his first wife in 1797, and had by her four daughters; the youngest of whom was born in July, 1803, about seven weeks before the death of her mother. At the death of the first Mrs. Taylor, in September, 1803, Anne…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The principal and most important question in this case, so far at least as the feelings of the children of the second Mrs. Taylor are concerned, although it is but incidental to the decision of the question wdio shall be the committee of the estate of the lunatic, is as to their legitimacy. Upon that question, however, from the evidence in the case, I think there is no ground to doubt that there was an actual marriage, by a contract in prasentí, between B. Taylor and Ann Connel, as early as 1804 ; although there is no proof that a marriage ceremony, in the usual form, actually…
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