Ford v. . Clendenin
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered February 15,1913, affirming a judgment in favor of defendants entered upon a dismissal of the complaint by the court on trial at Special Term.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered February 15,1913, affirming a judgment in favor of defendants entered upon a dismissal of the complaint by the court on trial at Special Term. The action was brought to have declared invalid and void a sale of the interest of the plaintiffs in premises in the complaint described, pursuant to an interlocutory judgment entered July 2, 1883, in an action brought by Gabrielle M. Greeley against Nicholas Smith and others, and that the decision, judgment and all proceedings in that…
1Opinion of the CourtChase, J.
Horace Greeley, the famous editor and writer, died November 29, 1872. His wife, Mary Y. C. Greeley, died October 30, 1872. The farm which had been occupied by them as a homestead at Chappaqua, N. Y., and where he wrote his book “ What I Know of Farming,” contained about eighty acres of land. The legal title to all of it except two pieces thereof together containing seven or eight acres, but wholly included within the general boundaries of the farm, was vested in Mrs. Greeley at the time of her death. The legal title to the two pieces containing about seven or eight acres was in Mr. Greeley at…
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