Williams v. O'Conor Jones
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Lydia Lawrence Mason Jones and others, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, Catharine L. O’Conor Jones and Mary de Trobriand, entered in the office of the clerk.of the county of Mew York on the 18th day of June, 1900, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Mew York.Special Term.
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Appeal by the defendants, Lydia Lawrence Mason Jones and others, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, Catharine L. O’Conor Jones and Mary de Trobriand, entered in the office of the clerk.of the county of Mew York on the 18th day of June, 1900, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Mew York.Special Term. The action was brought to procure a judgment construing the 9th clause of the will of Mary Mason Jones, deceased, and also for a settlement of the accounts of her executors and trustees. The 9th clause of the will reads as…
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
The testatrix, Mary Mason Jones, died on the 28th of May, 1891. She left her surviving her son Mason R. Jones and her daughter' Mary de Trobriand. The son had been twice married and had several children by his first wife," who were living at the time of the death of the testatrix. He also had a son, Renshaw Mason Jones, by his second wife, Louise O’Conor Jones, both of whom were *354living at the time of the death of the testatrix. The sbn Benshaw died on the 5th of November, 1894, unmarried and without issue, leaving him surviving his father Mason and his mother Louise. On the…
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