New York Court of Appeals
Albert Delafield v. Richard Delafield Shipman, Impleaded…
November 23, 1886103 N.Y. 463
Summary
The Court held that the residuary estate remained vested in the trustees during the widow's life and that the one-seventh share of surplus income payable to a deceased child did not pass to the surviving children but vested in the child's descendant under the Revised Statutes, reversing the lower courts.