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Marie S. Livingston, as Administratrix of the Estate of Robert L. Livingston, Deceased, et al., Respondents, v. Bayard U. Livingston et al., Respondents, and Charles M. Hough, as Executor and Trustee under the Will of Anne D. Thomson, Deceased, et al., Appellants.
    
      Title — real property — decedent’, s estate — action to determine rights oj parties to real property.
    
    
      Livingston v. Livingston, 216 App. Div. 698, reversed.
    (Argued December 14, 1927;
    decided January 10, 1928.)
    Appeal from a judgment, entered October 9, 1926, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, which reversed a judgment in favor of defendants-appellants, entered upon an order of Special Term granting a motion for judgment on the pleading and directed judgment in favor of plaintiffs and defendants-respondents. The action was to determine and declare the rights of the respective parties in and to certain real property, a portion of the estate of James Thomson, deceased.
    
      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 0. 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 plaintiff s-respondents.
    
      Joseph W. Welsh, Roland L. Redmond, Alfred C. Petté, 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.