Legal Opinion

Wall v. . Kellogg's Executors

New York Court of Appeals

Decided December 5, 1857PublishedCited by 14 opinions

Appeal from the Supreme Court. The referee to whom the action was referred found the following facts, viz.: The plaintiff, on the 24th day of December, 1828, purchased a parcel of land in Lysander, Onondaga county, from H. & S. W. Baldwin, and gave them a bond and mortgage for the purchase money.

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Appeal from the Supreme Court. The referee to whom the action was referred found the following facts, viz.: The plaintiff, on the 24th day of December, 1828, purchased a parcel of land in Lysander, Onondaga county, from H. & S. W. Baldwin, and gave them a bond and mortgage for the purchase money. On the 30th of December, 1828, the Bank of Auburn recovered a judgment against the plaintiff for $1653.22. On the 5th of August, 1830, the premises were sold upon an execution issued upon a judgment of Hall A Bassett, recovered on the 26th of June, 1830, and wore bid in by them, and Hall went into…

1Opinion of the Court · PaigePaige, J.

The referee found, as conclusions of law, that the interest of the Bank of Auburn in the premises was in the nature of a mortgage interest; and that the plaintiff, upon his payment of the amount due upon the-Hall & Bassett note, was entitled to a conveyance of the premises; and that Kellogg had no equitable interest therein, but held the same as "a naked trustee for the plaintiff and the Bank of Auburn; and that the executors wrongfully conveyed the premises to Beach; and that the estate of Kellogg having had the benefit of the consideration money received on the sale, it was equitably…

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2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Woodcock v. BennetNew York Supreme Court · 1823

3Cited by14 opinions

  1. O'Brien v. . JacksonNew York Court of Appeals · 1901
  2. Claim for a Ring of Van Slooten v. DodgeNew York Court of Appeals · 1895
  3. Dunham v. FitchAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1900
  4. Moran v. MorrillAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903
  5. Scheibeler v. AlbeeAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1906

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