Croker v. New York Trust Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Richard Croker, Jr., from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 11th day of May, 1923, granting defendant’s motion for a stay of proceedings.
1Opinion of the Court
McAvoy, J.:
This order granted a stay for six months of this action, or such stay as would suspend proceedings herein until the earlier determination of a suit to declare invalid an instrument purporting to be the last will of Richard Croker, Sr., now pending in the Probate Court of Ireland, or until the ultimate determination of any appeal taken from the result of that suit.
The action here is to recover moneys advanced by the plaintiff for and on behalf of the original defendant in the sum of $105,836.73. A counterclaim, demanding that the plaintiff account for properties and moneys received…
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