Moller v. Lincoln Safe Deposit Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Lincoln Safe Deposit Company, 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 21st day of August, 1916, restraining it pendente lite from preventing plaintiff from having free and unobstructed access to certain safes.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
The defendant is a safe deposit company in the city of New Fork engaged in the business of renting safes in its vaults to those who may desire to use them. In September, 1904, and in February, 1905, plaintiff and her son, Harold Gf. Holler, rented two safes in defendant’s vaults, and as to each one the said plaintiff and the said Harold Gr. Holler (but not this defendant) signed an agreement in the following words: “ Should this safe be rented by two or more persons, it is understood and agreed that in the event of the death of either, the survivor or survivors are to have the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- National Safe Deposit Co. v. SteadSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- Bachman v. . HarringtonNew York Court of Appeals · 1906
- Roberts v. Stuyvesant Safe Deposit Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1890
- Mercantile Safe-Deposit Co. v. HuntingtonNew York Supreme Court · 1895
- Lockwood v. Manhattan Storage & Warehouse Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898
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- Eyck v. LombardAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1936
- In re the Estate of HinkleyNew York Surrogate's Court · 1944
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