Russell v. Allen
New York Court of Chancery
This was an appeal from a decree of the vice chancellor of the third circuit, dismissing the complainant’s bill against Allen and Hawley, two of the defendants, with costs. The object of this suit was to obtain a decree allowing the complainant to redeem a lot of land, in Washington county, which had been purchased by the defendant Hawley, at a sheriff’s sale ; and which had afterwards been conveyed by him to the defendant, Abram Allen.
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This was an appeal from a decree of the vice chancellor of the third circuit, dismissing the complainant’s bill against Allen and Hawley, two of the defendants, with costs. The object of this suit was to obtain a decree allowing the complainant to redeem a lot of land, in Washington county, which had been purchased by the defendant Hawley, at a sheriff’s sale ; and which had afterwards been conveyed by him to the defendant, Abram Allen. D. Beatty, the judgment debtor, was the owner of the lot or farm in question, in fee, in 1810, and continued in possession to the time of the filing of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The vice chancellor was clearly right as to his construction of the statute relative to the redemption of lands sold upon execution. The owner of the premises must exercise his right to redeem within the year, or the purchaser will be entitled to a conveyance at the expiration of the fifteen months; unless some creditor whose judgment or decree is a valid and subsisting lien or charge upon the premises, acquires the interest of such purchaser in the manner prescribed in the statute.' (2 R. S. 371, § 50, 51. Van Rensselaer v. The Sheriff of Onondaga, 1 Cowen's Rep. 443.) And as…
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