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The New York Life Insurance and Trust Company, as Trustee, etc., v. Ophelia J. Cuthbert, Defendant; Margaret S. Ives, Respondent; Cordelia D. Chauvet et al., Appellants, Impleaded, etc., 1896 — 148 N.Y. 742 · caselaw · US
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The New York Life Insurance and Trust Company, as Trustee, etc., v. Ophelia J. Cuthbert, Defendant; Margaret S. Ives, Respondent; Cordelia D. Chauvet et al., Appellants, Impleaded, etc.
148 N.Y. 742·New York Court of Appeals·1896·NY
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The New York Life Insurance and Trust Company, as Trustee, etc., v. Ophelia J. Cuthbert, Defendant; Margaret S. Ives, Respondent; Cordelia D. Chauvet et al., Appellants, Impleaded, etc.
Reported below, 87 Hun, 339.
(Argued January 20, 1896;
decided January 31, 1896.)
Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, made June 14, 1895; which affirmed an order of Special Term striking out certain portions of an answer of the defendant Chauvet.
Isaac H. Maynard for appellants.
Edward TV. Crittenden for respondent.
[MAJORITY]
Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.
All concur, except Bartlett, J., not sitting.