Wright v. . Douglass
New York Court of Appeals
Ejectment for a lot of land in the town of Constantia, Oswego county, tried at the Oswego circuit, before Gridley, circuit judge, in December, 1846. To show title in himself, the plaintiff proved the Towanda Bank to have been a corporation duly created according to the laws of Pennsylvania, where its business was transacted.
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Ejectment for a lot of land in the town of Constantia, Oswego county, tried at the Oswego circuit, before Gridley, circuit judge, in December, 1846. To show title in himself, the plaintiff proved the Towanda Bank to have been a corporation duly created according to the laws of Pennsylvania, where its business was transacted. (2.) A judgment in favor of the bank against one Dennis, under whom both parties claimed title, docketed in Oct. 1837, for #2098; execution and sale to the Towanda Bank on the 6th of June, 1838, of the premises in question; a certificate of sale, &c. duly filed in the…
1Opinion of the CourtGardiner, J.
In this suit the rights of the parties are to be determined by the condition of the title of the Towanda Bank to the premises in question, at the time when the attach ment was served, upon which the -judgment in favor of the plaintiff was recovered.
The land had been sold under a judgment of the bank, upon the 6th of June, 1838, and bid in for the corporation. The time for redemption expired on the 6th of September, 1839. By the sale, and lapse of time, the judgment debtor was divested of all his interest in the premises—I say all his interest, because the legal title, which nominally remained…
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