Court Opinion

ID: 5456301
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-09 19:20:14.189748+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:32:40.329479
License: Public Domain

By the Court.—J. F. Barnard, J.*
The deceased John Mulligan was a citizen, and therefore could hold and transmit property. If an heir capable of taking can be found, the estate will descend to such heir (Parish v. Ward, 28 Barb., 328). .
The fact of the alienage of a common father, will not impede the inheritance between brothers; the inheritance between brothers is immediate (McGregor v. Comstock, 3 N. Y. [3 Comst.], 408).
This doctrine is not questioned in McLean v. Swanston (13 N. Y. [3 Kern.], 535). In that case, the title, to have reached the plaintiff, must have passed through an alien. In this case the father is not a medium heriditatis.
Order affirmed with costs.

 Present, J. F. Barnard, P. J., and Gilbert and Tappen, JJ.