In re Mechanics' Bank
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the petitioner, the Mechanics’ Bank, Brooklyn, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 24th day of January, 1913, denying the petitioner’s motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus.
1Opinion of the Court
Burr, J. :
On the 16th day of November, 1912, George A. M. Smith executed and delivered to the Mechanics’ Bank, Brooklyn, a paper which is in form a deed, conveying property on the east side, of Fourth avenue in the said borough of Brooklyn. On the same day it was presented by a representative of the said bank to the register of Kings county, with a request that it be recorded, and the fee for recording such instrument was then tendered. The register' refused to comply with the request unless an affidavit was presented to him made by an officer of said bank stating whether said deed was…
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