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Alma L. Wells, Appellant, v. Grant Squires et al., as Executors of Henry M. Wells, Deceased, et al., Respondents, 1908 — 191 N.Y. 529 · caselaw · US
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Alma L. Wells, Appellant, v. Grant Squires et al., as Executors of Henry M. Wells, Deceased, et al., Respondents
191 N.Y. 529·New York Court of Appeals·1908·NY
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Alma L. Wells, Appellant, v. Grant Squires et al., as Executors of Henry M. Wells, Deceased, et al., Respondents.
Wells v. Squires, 117 App. Div. 503, affirmed.
(Argued February 19, 1908;
decided March 10, 1908.)
Appeal from a judgment entered March 12, 1907, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, which reversed a judgment in favor .of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term and directed judgment for the defendants in an action for the construction of a will.
Vincent P. Donihee, Edward S. Hatch and Lyle Evans Mahan for appellant.
Edward Bruce Hill, Gerrit Smith and Alfred Jaretzki for respondents.
[MAJORITY]
Judgment affirmed, with costs, on opinion below.
Concur : Cullen, Ch. J., Gray, Haight, Vann, Werner, Willard Bartlett and Hiscook, JJ.