Housman v. Wright
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Jacob I. Housman, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Richmond on the 1st day of November, 1899, setting aside a sale under a judgment of foreclosure and a deficiency judgment therein, and providing for relief to the defendant Garrett P. Wright upon an ex parte application to the court, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 18th day of…
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Appeal by the plaintiff, Jacob I. Housman, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Richmond on the 1st day of November, 1899, setting aside a sale under a judgment of foreclosure and a deficiency judgment therein, and providing for relief to the defendant Garrett P. Wright upon an ex parte application to the court, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 18th day of November, 1899, granted in confirmation of the first-mentioned order.
1Opinion of the Court
Hirschberg, J.:
The action was brought to foreclose a $6,000 mortgage given by the testator of the defendant Garrett P. Wright, executor. The-property is real estate situated in the borough of Richmond. Letters testamentary were issued to the executor March 24, 1896, and from that time until March, 1899, the attorney for the estate was Forrest L. G. fright, the executor’s son. In March, 1899, the executor alleges that he placed the law affairs of the estate in the keeping of the firm of Parker & Aaron, lawyers, of No. 15 Wall street, borough of Manhattan; but that he told them they need not…
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