Scripture v. Morris
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by William H. Good, the purchaser at a foreclosure sale had in the above-entitled action, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term on the 9th day of January, 1899, granting the plaintiff’s motion to compel him to complete his purchase. The action was brought to foreclose a mortgage fexecuted by Fanny Morris upon the lots referred to in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J. :
There is no dispute in the moving papers as to the essential facts upon which this appeal must he decided.
Gilbert S. Thatford, in 1867, being the owner of a.large tract of land in the town of Hew Lots, made and filed in the office of the register of‘ the county of Kings a map of the same,'' upon which were laid down several streets, and among them.Thatford avenue. The map is called map Ho. 1, and contained 156 lots, and among them the premises in question, designated as lots Hos. 76 and 77. These lots were each 25 feet by 100 feet, and fronted on Thatford avenue'. In 1869…
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