Dikeman v. Dikeman
New York Court of Chancery
This was an appeal, by G. Storms, from an order of the vice chancellor of the first circuit, extending the time to redeem certain lands in the city of New-York, sold for assessments and bid off by the appellant, until six months after the final decree in this cause should be made. The bill was filed in February, 1843, by S. Dikeman, the widow of Matthew Dikeman the younger.
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This was an appeal, by G. Storms, from an order of the vice chancellor of the first circuit, extending the time to redeem certain lands in the city of New-York, sold for assessments and bid off by the appellant, until six months after the final decree in this cause should be made. The bill was filed in February, 1843, by S. Dikeman, the widow of Matthew Dikeman the younger. It stated, among other things, that in 1815 John Horn died, seised of lands in the city of New-York, of which the lands mentioned in the bill as having been sold for assessments were a part; that by his will he devised…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The bill in this case is not properly framed to entitle the complainant to an order extending the time to redeem, under the act of the 26th of May, 1841, to authorize the sale of real estate in certain cases to pay assessments, and for other purposes. [Laws of 1841, p. 325.) The object of that statute was not to throw upon the court of chancery the burthen of deciding all questions which might arise in relation to the validity of assessments and sales of property in, cities and villages, when the ’property assessed is owned by several persons as tenants in common, or by persons…
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