Richards v. . Richards
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, affirming an order of Special Term, taxing the fees of Bradbury C. Chetwood, referee, on partition sale herein.
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Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, affirming an order of Special Term, taxing the fees of Bradbury C. Chetwood, referee, on partition sale herein. (Reported below, 14 Hun, 25.) The referee was allowed, by the order apjjealed from, commissions, at the rate allowed to executors, on the purchase price, as provided by section 4 of the act chapter 569, Laws of 1869, and also the'fees allowed by section 2 of said act to the sheriff on foreclosure sales. The act of 1869 (chap. 569) is a local act and limited in its operation to property in…
1Opinion of the CourtEarl, J.
We concur generally in the opinion of the learned referee contained in the case submitted to us.
Under the act of 1869, chapter 569, as amended by the act of 1874, chapter 192, the referee appointed to make the sale was entitled to the commissions allowed him. The title of the act of 1869 is “An act in relation to the fees of the sheriff' of the city ancl county of New York, and to the lees of referees in sales in partition eases.” Section one provides that “all sales of real estate hereafter made in the city and county of New York under the decree or judgment of any court of record (except…
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