Griffen v. Ford
The Superior Court of New York City
This action comes before the Court, at General Term, on an appeal by the defendant, Ford, from the judgment entered therein on the trial thereof by the Court, without a jury. It was brought by Hannah Griffen, as plaintiff, against Henry Byrns, William J. Hodges, Lewis S. Ford, William Sands, William G. Lyon, and Jacob V. B. Wyckoff, trustee.
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This action comes before the Court, at General Term, on an appeal by the defendant, Ford, from the judgment entered therein on the trial thereof by the Court, without a jury. It was brought by Hannah Griffen, as plaintiff, against Henry Byrns, William J. Hodges, Lewis S. Ford, William Sands, William G. Lyon, and Jacob V. B. Wyckoff, trustee. The plaintiff claimed 'to be entitled, under the will of her father, Jacob Thomas, to the rents and profits of a house and lot in Nassau street, in the city of New York, and the 'relief demanded by her complaint was, that a certain lease of the premises,…
1Opinion of the CourtBy the Court. Duer, J.
An attentive examination of the interesting questions which this case involves, has compelled our assent to nearly every proposition for which the learned Counsel for the plaintiff contended, and we are therefore under the necessity of assenting to bis conclusion, that the plaintiff was fully entitled to the judgment she has obtained.
The first question relates to the validity of the will of her father, from which she derives her title, and who, it is admitted, died seized of the house and lot in controversy.
We strongly incline to think that this is a question which the defendant, Ford, was…
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