Barson v. Mulligan

The defendant Agnes Mulligan, asserting her rights as mortgagee in possession, successfully resisted the plaintiffs’ claim to possession, and obtained a reversal of the latter’s judgment in this action for ejectment. Barson v. Mulligan, 66 App. Div. 486, 73 N. Y. Supp. 262. Upon the second trial it developed that the mortgage under which possession was claimed had been *688assigned by this defendant to one Steers in the year 1888, and, no reassignment being alleged in the answer, or proven, so far as to justify the possession in connection with the original. entry, the rights of this defendant…