Carroll v. Collins
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Thomas Collins, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 16th day of December, 1895, upon the decision of the court rendered in an action of ejectment after a trial at the Westchester Circuit before the court without a jury.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J. :
The plaintiff sued as the adopted child and heir of Elizabeth Carroll, deceased, to recover possession of certain real estate in Westchester county, of which Elizabeth Carroll died seized, and which her surviving husband, the defendant, Thomas Collins, now claims to own. The complaint alleged that the plaintiff was lawfully adopted by John Carroll and Elizabeth, his wife, in the year 1850, at Yan Courtlandt Park in the city of New York; that the said John Carroll died in the year 1886; that thereafter the said Elizabeth Carroll married the defendant, Thomas Collins, and…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- People ex rel. Cocuzza v. CobbNew York Supreme Court · 1949
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