Stevens v. . Melcher
New York Court of Appeals
Cross-appeals from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered December 31, 1894, which modified and as modified affirmed a judgment entered upon the report of a referee. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
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Cross-appeals from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered December 31, 1894, which modified and as modified affirmed a judgment entered upon the report of a referee. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The General Term erred in sustaining the action of the Special Term and referee in charging the expense of rebuilding the walls and foundation of the apartment house at the cost of $33,707.31, to the plaintiff’s trust legacy, instead of to the estate of Paran Stevens. (Waterman on Spec.…
1Opinion of the CourtHaight, J.
This action was brought for an accounting by the trustees under the will of Paran Stevens, with his executors, his widow and remaindermen. Paran Stevens died in the city of Hew York on the 25th of April, 1872, leaving him surviving the defendant Marietta E. Stevens, his widow, and Ellen S. Melcher, the wife of John S. Melcher, Mary Eiske Stevens, now the wife of Arthur H. F. Paget, and Henry Leiden Stevens, his only children and heirs at law. Lie left a last will and testament in which he bequeathed to his widow the sum of $100,000 to be paid to her out of his estate as soon as practicable…
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