Ward v. Chelsea Exchange Bank
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Arpe at, by the plaintiffs, Amia Day Ward and another, as committee, etc., from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the comity of New York on the 18th day of July, 1912, overruling demurrers to the third and fourth separate defenses of the amended answer.
1Opinion of the Court
Clarke, J.:
The plaintiffs are the committee of all the property within this State of William R. Ward, an incompetent person. The complaint alleges that a commission in the nature of a writ de lunático inquirendo was duly issued hy the Court of Chancery of the State of New Jersey, December 28, 1907, to inquire into the lunacy of William R. Ward; that upon inquisition and by the jurors it was duly found that said Ward was at the time of taking said inquiry a lunatip and of unsound mind, and did not enjoy lucid intervals, so that he was not sufficient for, or capable of the government of…
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- Golden v. Health DepartmentAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
- Friedman v. Columbia Machine Works & Malleable Iron Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1904
- Edmonds v. SternAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1904
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