Purdy v. Purdy
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Sanford A. Purdy and others, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 7th day of November, 1896, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Westchester Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Bradley, J.:
Action for dower in, and for partition of, lands of which Ebenezer S. Purdy died seized. He left his will, which has been admitted to-probate, whereby he gave to his wife (the plaintiff) all his property, real and pei’sonal, “ for her sole use and benefit as long as she lives, by her keeping the property in repair and paying to my brother, Sanford Purdy, four dollars each month in his hand, to be derived from the revenue of - the two houses, such payment to commence two years after my decease.” He devised the estate in remainder in the two houses and lots to persons named in the…
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