Holland v. Holland
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Cornelius Holland and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk- of the county of Cayuga on the 7th day of December, 1903, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 8th day of January, 1904, denying the said defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
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Appeal by the defendants, Cornelius Holland and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk- of the county of Cayuga on the 7th day of December, 1903, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 8th day of January, 1904, denying the said defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes. The action was commenced on the 6th day of December, 1902, under section 2653a of the Code of Civil Procedure, for the purpose of having it adjudged that an instrument bearing date the 8th day…
1Opinion of the Court
McLennan, P. J.:
The testimony is voluminous, twenty-five witnesses having been called by the plaintiff and about the same number by the answering defendants, but as we consider that certain objections and exceptions taken by the appellants to the admission of evidence, to which attention will be called, present reversible error, it is unnecessary to refer to the testimony in detail or at length. It is sufficient to say that it presents a fair question of fact as to each proposition submitted to the jury by the learned tidal court.
Cornelius Holland died on the 7th day of April, 1901, at the…
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