Van Campen v. Bruns
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Christoph L. Bruns'and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 21st day of February, 1900, nuhopro tuno, as of the 2d day of February, 1900, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Kings County Special Term ordering that a certain assignment of judgment be delivered up by the defendant John Widdecombe to the plaintiffs.
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
The plaintiffs’, testator recovered a judgment against the defendant Bruns in January, 1886. Execution and supplementary proceedings were issued but nothing was collected from-the defendant, *87who had become insolvent. In 1896 the plaintiffs commenced an action to revive the judgment pursuant to section 1913 of the Code of Civil Procedure. A judgment having been entered in that action in December, 1898, amounting to $1,878.12, execution was issued and returned wholly unsatisfied. Previously to the first judgment the defendant Brans was engaged in the grocery business at…
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