Horner v. Lyman
New York Court of Appeals
This action is brought npon two undertakings executed by the defendants above named, on an appeal from two judgments in the-Supreme Court, recovered by these plaintiffs and one Edmund F. Grant, against Cortland Wood and John C. Lyman. The undertakings are both dated May 12,1857, • and are in the usual form, to stay execution.
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This action is brought npon two undertakings executed by the defendants above named, on an appeal from two judgments in the-Supreme Court, recovered by these plaintiffs and one Edmund F. Grant, against Cortland Wood and John C. Lyman. The undertakings are both dated May 12,1857, • and are in the usual form, to stay execution. After the recovery of the two judgments in' the Supreme Court, which was on September 17, 1855, and before the appeal was taken to the Court of Appeals, Edmund F. Grant died, and his administrator, William H. Grant, assigned all his interest in said judgments to the…
1Opinion of the CourtMiller, J.
Each of the instruments upon which the plaintiffs recovered in this action was in the usual form of *252an undertaking, upon an appeal to the Court of Appeals, and provided for the payment of the judgment recovered, as well as for all damages which should be awarded upon the appeal. These undertakings were executed prior to the passage of an act of the legislature, by which section 307 of the Code was amended, by inserting in the sixth subdivision of that section, which provided for costs on appeal to the Court of Appeals, the following clause: “ And when a judgment is affirmed, the court may, in…
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