Ford v. Clendenin
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs, Nixola Greeley Smith Ford and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 5th day of August, 1912, upon the decision of the court, rendered.after a trial at the Westchester Special Term, dismissing the complaint upon the merits.
1Opinion of the Court
The following is the opinion of the Special Term:
Mills, J.:
This is an action to have adjudged null and void as to the plaintiffs a certain judgment of this court, entered in 1883, purporting to appoint a trustee to sell certain real estate, and as well the sale and deed thereunder and various subsequent deeds by the, grantee in that deed.
The premises involved were, at the time of the sale, a farm of nearly eighty acres, situated at Chappaqua, in the county of Westchester, and famous as the homestead of the then late Horace Greeley. It was the estate to which that great editor and author,…
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