Livingston v. Reynolds
New York Supreme Court
APPEAL from Chancery. Mary Livingston, the appellant filed a bill in chancery against James Reynolds the respondent, charging him with waste as the tenant for lives of a farm, the reversion of which belongs to the appellant. The farm contains about one hundred and eighty acres, and was demised, in 1799, to one John Reynolds.
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APPEAL from Chancery. Mary Livingston, the appellant filed a bill in chancery against James Reynolds the respondent, charging him with waste as the tenant for lives of a farm, the reversion of which belongs to the appellant. The farm contains about one hundred and eighty acres, and was demised, in 1799, to one John Reynolds. At the time of the demise of the one hundred and eighty acres, there was a lease executed by the same lessor to the same lessee of a wood lot of thirty acres, immediately adjoining the one hundred and eighty acres, which together with the principal lease was assigned by…
1Opinion of the Court
After advisement, opinions were delivered by Mr. Justice Cowen and by the President of the Senate. The opinion of the former will be found in 2 Hill, 159; the opinion of the latter is as follows:
By the President of the Senate.
The bill filed in this cause sets forth a lease, alleges waste, and prays an injunction against future waste, and an account and satisfaction for that already committed. Upon the bill and accompanying affidavit an injunction was issued; an answer was put in and a motion made to dissolve the injunction. Upon the hearing of this motion, the Chancellor dissolved the…
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