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Elise M. Jewett, Respondent, v. Melinda P. Schmidt et al., Appellants, and Fritz Leopold Schmidt, Jr., et al., Respondents, 1906 — 184 N.Y. 608 · caselaw · US
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Elise M. Jewett, Respondent, v. Melinda P. Schmidt et al., Appellants, and Fritz Leopold Schmidt, Jr., et al., Respondents
184 N.Y. 608·New York Court of Appeals·1906·NY
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Elise M. Jewett, Respondent, v. Melinda P. Schmidt et al., Appellants, and Fritz Leopold Schmidt, Jr., et al., Respondents.
Jewett v. Schmidt, 108 App. Div. 322, affirmed.
(Argued March 28, 1906;
decided April 17, 1906.)
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first -judicial department, entered November-23, 1905, affirming a final judgment of Special Term in an action for the construction of the will of George Parbury Pollen, deceased, and for an accounting.
Barclay F. F McOarty for appellants.
Thomas J. Falls for plaintiff, respondent.
Walter Oarroll Low . and LI.' Dickinson Jewett for defendants, respondents.
[MAJORITY]
Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.
Concur: Edward T. Baj&tlett, Werner, Hiscock and Chase, JJ. Cullen, Ch.- J., and Gray, J., dissent on the ground that there was no trust created by the provisions of the -will. Absent: O’Brien, J.