Perrior v. Peck
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, George H. Perrior, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Onondaga on the 16th day of December, 1897, upon the report of a referee. The plaintiff brought an action of ejectment to recover possession of lands occupied by the defendant which the plaintiff claimed to own.
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Appeal by the plaintiff, George H. Perrior, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Onondaga on the 16th day of December, 1897, upon the report of a referee. The plaintiff brought an action of ejectment to recover possession of lands occupied by the defendant which the plaintiff claimed to own. The defendant, in his answer, claimed to be the absolute owner in fee of the premises in suit, and for affirmative relief asked to reform and correct a conveyance set forth in the answer, and that he be adjudged the owner in…
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
The plaintiff was the unqualified owner of the premises in controversy ; he was pressed by a creditor for an apparently insignificant demand which he regarded as unjust, and, for the purpose of evading its payment, he endeavored to convey the lands' to his friend • Goodwin. In this conveyance the lands first purported to be conveyed are the east half of the lands covered by a partition wall, and then the dower right and interest of the widow of Samuel Earned in and to the premises conveyed to him by the Earned heirs, reciting the description seriaPbm. Perrior conceded it was…
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