Nash v. Moore
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeals by the plaintiff, Lewis H. Nash, as trustee, etc., from two judgments, one in each case, of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 23d and 24th days of June, 1914, respectively, dismissing his complaint in each action upon the merits, upon the decision of the court after a trial at the Kings County Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Putnam, J.:
These were equity suits, tried together, to set aside and cancel of record three assignments of mortgages, purporting to have been made by plaintiff, one to the defendant Zimmer, and two to the defendant Moore.
Plaintiff, as trustee of the estate of Lewis Hallock, deceased, employed Augustus M. Price (now under a prison sentence) as his attorney. Price had in his possession three bonds and three mortgages to secure $3,500 each, made by one Williams to the plaintiff as trustee. Price had made the loans for the estate for which the bonds and mortgages were given several years before,…
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