Brouwer v. Jones
New York Supreme Court
PPEAL by the defendant from a judgment of the city court II of Brooklyn. The complaint alleged that Jacob Brouwer and John L. Mason, on the first day of January, in the yea# 1839, became and were the owners in fee of a certain tract of land in the sixth ward of the city of Brooklyn, embracing the several lots thereinafter mentioned or referred to.
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PPEAL by the defendant from a judgment of the city court II of Brooklyn. The complaint alleged that Jacob Brouwer and John L. Mason, on the first day of January, in the yea# 1839, became and were the owners in fee of a certain tract of land in the sixth ward of the city of Brooklyn, embracing the several lots thereinafter mentioned or referred to. That on the 26th day of June, 1845, the said Brouwer and Mason, by a conveyance bearing that date, which was recorded in the office of .the clerk of the county of Kings on the 13th day of November, 1845, sold and conveyed in fee two of the said lots…
1Opinion of the CourtEmott, J.
From several things about this case, and especially from the fact that a question of this importance to the community as well as to the parties, has been submitted to us upon brief written arguments, and we are thus asked to overrule a well considered judgment of the late Chancellor Walworth, affirming the decision of Vice Chancellor Me Conn, I am led to infer that this appeal is brought for the purpose of enabling the defendant to remove the case to the court of appeals, and that .the only importance attached to the judgment of this court is its necessity as a step in the progress which the…
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