Moore v. Littel
New York Court of Appeals
The first of the above actions was brought by Herbert C. Moore, to recover the possession of a certain lot of land in the city of Brooklyn, claimed by the plaintiff' in fee simple, wherein judgment, in favor of the plaintiff, that he recover ten undivided eleventh parts thereof, with mesne profits as damages and his costs, was rendered in the City Court of Brooklyn; which judgment was affirmed in General Term in the Supreme Court for the second district.
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The first of the above actions was brought by Herbert C. Moore, to recover the possession of a certain lot of land in the city of Brooklyn, claimed by the plaintiff' in fee simple, wherein judgment, in favor of the plaintiff, that he recover ten undivided eleventh parts thereof, with mesne profits as damages and his costs, was rendered in the City Court of Brooklyn; which judgment was affirmed in General Term in the Supreme Court for the second district. (See 40 Barb., 488; 52 Barb., 9.) The plaintiff’s title was derived through a mortgage deed executed by Parmenus Jackson, and Edward C.…
1Opinion of the CourtWoodruff, J.
In. the memorandum of my conclusions in the"case of Sheridan v. House, submitted on points, in September, 1868, and which was made for the purposes of the consultation with my brethren, and not as an opinion for publication, (see 4 Keyes’ Rep., p. 569), I noted some views of the nature of the interest which under the grant from Samuel Jackson to John Jackson and his heirs, the latter had under the provisions of our statutes.
That memorandum is an imperfect exhibition of the reasons why, under those statutes, that interest is alienable, and effectually passed from the respective grontors to the…
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