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170 A.D. 412

Lightfoot v. Kane

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1915-12-10

Appeal by the plaintiff, Blanche L. Lightfoot, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 20th day of September, 1915, granting the motion of the defendants herein, except the defendant Rosemary Kane, for judgment on the pleadings dismissing the complaint.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently October 1942

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Decided 1915-12-10

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Laughlin, J. (concurring):

¶1I concur in the views expressed by Mr. Justice Smith, and vote for reversal. I am of opinion that the provisions of the will directing that the residuary estate be divided into as many shares or portions as the testator left children him surviving *416is qualified by the further provisions with respect to the prior death of a child leaving issue, and that the true construction of the will is that if the testator left children arid the issue of a deceased child, no matter whether the death of such child occurred before or after the making of the will, the residuary estate should be.divided into a number of shares equal to the number of sons and daughters of the testator who survived him, plus the number of his sons and daughters who predeceased him, leaving issue surviving the testator.

¶2The plaintiff and the defendant Rosemary Kane, who are the children of the testatrix’s son Michael, are, therefore, entitled to take the share which Michael would have taken had he survived the testatrix.

¶3Ingraham, P. J., Clarke, Scott and Smith, JJ., concurred.

¶4Judgment reversed, with costs, and motion denied, with ten dollars costs.

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