Bates v. Ledgerwood Manufacturing Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered upon an order made February 25, 1889, which affirmed a judgment in favor of defendant, entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Circuit. This was an action of ejectment brought to recover the possession of certain lands situate in the county of Kings.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered upon an order made February 25, 1889, which affirmed a judgment in favor of defendant, entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Circuit. This was an action of ejectment brought to recover the possession of certain lands situate in the county of Kings. The plaintiff alleged that the Fibre Disintegrating Company, a blew Jersey corporation, was seized in fee and in possession of the premises on March 13, 1867, when one John Anson recovered against the company a judgment upon which was…
1Opinion of the CourtBeadlet, J.
The evidence introduced by the plaintiff failed to establish any cause of action against the defendant. The main questions arise upon the exceptions to exclusion of evidence, which, it is claimed on the part of the plaintiff, would have tended to prove that the Fibre Disintegrating Company had title to the premises in question at the time of the recovery by Anson against it in March, 1867, and upon which the judgment became a lien, and that by the sheriff’s deed to the plaintiff the latter took such title. The question, therefore, arises whether the excluded evidence was sufficient to prove…
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