Shook v. Fox
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs, John W. Shook and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant Catherine Fox, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Rensselaer on the 26tli day of October, 1907, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the Rensselaer Trial Term, a jury having been waived, dismissing the complaint.
1Dissent
Kellogg, J. (dissenting):
The judgment appealed from rests substantially upon the evidence of Kirkpatrick, a witness now deceased, whose testimony was taken on behalf of the defendant Fox, under section 871 of the Code of Civil Procedure, in an action of ejectment brought by the father of the plaintiffs against her.
The defendant Fox was in possession under one Striker, the former owner, and she claimed to own the property by virtue of a conveyance or agreement from him. The plaintiffs claimed that Striker owned the property at the time of his death, and that by his will their father was given…
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