New York Supreme Court October 15, 1887 (Bouton v. Thomas)

Smith, P. J.:

The plaintiffs, claiming as remaindermen or reversioners under tbe will of John C. Legern, deceased, seek to recover in this action for waste alleged to have been committed or directed by tbe life tenant. Tbe will, after directing tbe payment of the testator’s debts and specifying certain devises and bequests, gave tbe residue *7of tbe estate, real and personal, to “ my beirs to .