New York Supreme Court December 5, 1853 (Wadsworth v. Murray)

By the Court, Johnson, J.

The question here is whether the lands devised by James Wadsworth to his daughter Elizabeth for life, and to her issue in fee, at her death, descended to the heirs at law of the testator; or whether her son, the defendant, Charles James Murray, who was an infant alien, took under the devise, subject to the right of the government to escheat.