State Bank v. Lighthall
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, John A. Lighthall, individually and as trustee, and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Onondaga on the 17th day of January, 1899, upon the report of a referee.
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Appeal by the defendants, John A. Lighthall, individually and as trustee, and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Onondaga on the 17th day of January, 1899, upon the report of a referee. Plaintiff brings this action to foreclose a mortgage bearing date the 26th day of February, 1896, recorded in the Onondaga county clerk’s office on the 18th day of December, 1896 in book 326 of Mortgages at page 285. An answer was served by John A. Lighthall, William S. Light-hall, Frederick S. Lighthall and Zayde E.…
1Opinion of the Court
Hardin, P. J.:
Plaintiff’s complaint alleges that it received the mortgage mentioned in the complaint. The mortgage bears date the 26th day of February, 1896. It was acknowledged by Frederick S. Lighthall and Zayde E. Lighthall on the 28th day of February, 1896, in the State of New Jersey, and on the 2d day of March, 1896, it was acknowledged by John A. Lighthall and William S. Lighthall before a commissioner of deeds in the city of Syracuse.
The following words are found in the first part of the mortgage, to wit:
“ This indenture, made this twenty-sixth day of February, in the year of our Lord…
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- Farr v. . NicholsNew York Court of Appeals · 1892
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