Lynch v. . Livingston
New York Court of Appeals
* Aoa i * Appeal from the general term of the Su- -* preme Court, in the first district, where a judgment had been entered in favor of the defendant, upon a verdict taken at the circuit, subject to the opinion of the court, upon a case made. (Reported below, 8 Barb. 463.) This was an ejectment for one undivided twenty-fourth part of a lot of ground in the city of New York, which the plaintiffs claimed in fee, in right of Mrs. Lynch.
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* Aoa i * Appeal from the general term of the Su- -* preme Court, in the first district, where a judgment had been entered in favor of the defendant, upon a verdict taken at the circuit, subject to the opinion of the court, upon a case made. (Reported below, 8 Barb. 463.) This was an ejectment for one undivided twenty-fourth part of a lot of ground in the city of New York, which the plaintiffs claimed in fee, in right of Mrs. Lynch. Joanna Livingston, the wife of Peter R. Livingston, • the defendant, was seised of the premises in question at the time of her marriage; she died in 1829, never…
1Opinion of the Court
*Welles, J.
— Three questions are presented upon the appeal for the decision of this court. I. It is contended by the counsel for the appellants, that “the transcript from the office of the register of deeds of the city and county of New York, of the deeds from Peter R. Livingston and wife to Robert J. Livingston, and from. the latter to said Peter R., were not admissible to prove the originals, because said deeds 1 *were not duly attested to authorize said register J to record them.”
The deeds in question were acknowledged on the 18th day of March 1825, before Francis A. Livingston, who…
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