8 N.Y. 9
Decided March 5, 1853
New York Court of Appeals · decided 1853-03-05
On the 12th day of September 1809, Hannah Ryerson, the mother of the plaintiffs Elizabeth Ann Wright and ' Charles Miller, then being a single woman and entitled to an undivided interest in a large estate left by her grandfather Samuel Ellis, by indenture reciting that she was unable to take the care, burthen, and management thereof, except by a trustee, and that she was desirous to make partition and to divide and adjust her claim thereto, with the other heirs and devisees…
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Decided 1853-03-05
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1938
15 state decisions
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¶1concurred with Judges Gardiner and Jewett, in favor of the reversal of the decree of the supreme court and the affirmance of the decree made by the Vice Chancellor.
¶2dissented and were in favor of an affirmance of the decree of the supreme court.
¶3Decree of the supreme court reversed, and that of the Vice Chancellor affirmed.