Gordon v. Van Cott
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Joshua M. Yan Cott, Jr., and others, as executors, etc.,' of Joshua M. Van Cott, deceased, from a judgment of the Supreme Court .in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Orange on the 9th day of June, 1898, upon the decision of the court, -rendered after a trial at the Orange Special Term, dismissing the counterclaim set forth in the defendants’ answer
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J. :
This action was Drought to recover the sum of $970.66 which had been collected by Joshua M. Yan Cott, the defendants’ testator, under and pursuant to an agreement made in settlement of a controversy over the will of .George P. Gordon, the details of which are not material to this appeal. The receipt of the sum named was *565admitted, and the defendants pleaded a counterclaim for services rendered by Mr. Van Oott to the estate of Cuthbert, 0. Gordon, deceased, upon which there was alleged to be due the defendants $450.46, for which judgment was demanded against the plaintiff. The…
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