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Emma Clark Tweddell, Respondent, v. The New York Life Insurance and Trust Company et al., Defendants; St. John's Guild, Appellant, 1901 — 166 N.Y. 608 · caselaw · US
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Emma Clark Tweddell, Respondent, v. The New York Life Insurance and Trust Company et al., Defendants; St. John's Guild, Appellant
166 N.Y. 608·New York Court of Appeals·1901·NY
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Emma Clark Tweddell, Respondent, v. The New York Life Insurance and Trust Company et al., Defendants; St. John’s Guild, Appellant.
Tweddell v. N. Y. Life Ins. & Trust Co., 49 App. Div. 258, affirmed.
(Argued March 5, 1901;
decided March 22, 1901.)
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered April 13, 1900, affirming a judgment of Special Term directing the New York Life Insurance and Tru.'t Company to transfer to the plaintiff a certain trust fund held by it under a deed of trust made by Annie Jane Bills.
John W. Weed and James E. Chandler for appellant.
Lucius H. Beers for respondent.
Charles A. Runk, guardian ad litem, for Francis Tweddell, Jr., an infant defendant.
[MAJORITY]
J udgment affirmed, with costs to the plaintiff and guardian, payable out of the estate; no opinion.
Concur: O’Brien, Bartlett, Haight, Martin, Vann, Landon and Cullen, JJ.