Leask v. Richards
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Sepabate appeals by the defendants George Richards, Jr., and others, from portions of a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants Mahlon Hoagland and others, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 4th day of January, 1906, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
The controversy in this -action concerns the 30th clause of the will of Hudson Hoagland,- who died on January 30, 1904, leaving a will which had been executed on ¡November 16,1903, with a codicil 'bearing date December 9, 1903. By the earlier clauses of his will he had disposed of a very considerable sum of money which he had. left in the main to nephews and nieces and grandnephews and grandnieces, giving to some bequests outright, and as to others intrusting the sums to his executors with instructions to pay over the income to the principal beneficiaries for life, with differing…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Weeks v. . CornwellNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
- Cromer v. PinckneyNew York Court of Chancery · 1848
- In Re the Judicial Settlement of the Account of WoodwardNew York Court of Appeals · 1889
- Brower v. BowersNew York Court of Appeals · 1850
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