Opinion
Argued December 14, 1927
Decided January 10, 1928
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department.
Charles Evans Hughes, Herman S. Hertwig, Langdon P. Marvin and Henry B. Closson for Charles M. Hough, as executor and trustee, et al., appellants.
Louis O. Van Doren, William R. Conklin and Edward S. Bentley for Ladies' Home Society, appellant.
Russell Benedict, William A. Alcock and Williston Benedict for Association for Relief of Indigent Females et al., appellants.
J. Culbert Palmer, Jr., and Percy D. Trafford for Society for Relief of Poor Widows, appellant. Alfred R. Page for plaintiffs-respondents.
Joseph W. Welsh, Roland L. Redmond, Alfred C. Pette, Philip M. Brett, W.A.W. Stewart and Frank B. Holsapple for defendants-respondents.
John N. Drake for Brockholst Livingston, defendant-respondent.
Judgment of Appellate Division reversed, without costs, and judgment of Special Term affirmed on authority of Livingston v. Ward ( 247 N.Y. 97).
Concur: CARDOZO, Ch. J., POUND, CRANE, ANDREWS, LEHMAN, KELLOGG and O'BRIEN, JJ.