O'Rourke v. Hall
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Hannah Hall, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 20th day of June, 1898, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Kings Comity Trial Term adjudging certain' deeds to be null and void, and that the plaintiff is the owner in fee of one undivided third part of the premises described in said deeds.
1Concurring in part, dissenting in part
Woodward, J. :
There appears to be no good reason why the judgment in this action should be disturbed. One Ellen Hall died intestate in June, 1883, and at the time of her death was seized in fee simple of the property now claimed by the parties in this suit. She left her surviving a husband, John Hall, and two children, William and Joseph, the two latter inheriting the property, subject to the life estate of their father. On the 19th of January, 1889, while William was twenty years and eight months old, and his brother was fourteen years and four months of age, these young men executed a…
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