Thompson v. . Burhans
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the third judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon a decision of the court on trial without a jury. (Reported below, 15 Hun, 580; reported on former appeal, 61 N. Y., 52.) The nature of the action and the facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtEarl, J.
This was an action of ejectment brought to recover an undivided five-sixteenth part of 4,000 acres of land described in the complaint as situated in the town of ¡Newcomb, Essex county, in township number forty-seven, in Totten & Crossfield’s purchase. The only title claimed by the plaintiff is under a tax deed from the comptroller of the State executed in 1836. It was held by the Commission of Appeals, upon a prior appeal in this case (61 N. Y., 52), that that title was, "on account qf certain defects in the proceedings prior to the execution of the deed by the comptroller, invalid, and hence…
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