Trust Co. of America v. State Safe Deposit Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The State Safe Deposit Company, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 12th day of June, 1905, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial át the New York Special Term, overruling ■the defendant’s demurrer'to the complaint. •
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
On the 10th of April, 1891, one Alphonse J. Stephani, then a resident of New York, was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to be imprisoned in the State prison for life. He was first confined in Sing Sing Prison, where he remained until January. 8, 1903, .when he was transferred, in pursuance of chapter 520 of the Laws of 1899, to the Dannemora State Hospital for Insane Convicts, where he ever since has remained and now is. On the 18th of November, 1903, the plaintiff, under the provisions- of chapter 401 of the Laws of 1889, was appointed a committee of the…
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- Kilbourne v. Board of Supervisors of Sullivan Co.New York Supreme Court · 1891
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