Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York July 1, 1900 (Opitz v. Hammen)

Woodward, J.:

This action was brought to obtain a judicial construction of the will of Frederick Hammen, deceased, and to have it adjudged and *7determined whether the plaintiff herein, as executor and trustee, took the real estate left by the decedent under his will as devisee, subject to the right of dower of the defendant Emma Hammen, Avidow of the decedent, and whether she had a right of