Green v. Grigg
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, George F. Green, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Niagara on the 22d day of January, 1904, upon the report of a referee dismissing the plaintiff’s complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Stover, J.:
The action is brought to set aside a transfer of a bond and mortgage executed by the plaintiff and to compel the defendant to deliver the possession to the plaintiff.
In July, 1901, plaintiff was the owner of a bond and mortgage executed by one Levan to the plaintiff, and which was recorded in the Niagara county clerk’s office. The plaintiff alleges that the mortgage was stolen from plaintiff and taken from his possession by *446one Edward W. Kappele, otherwise known as Edward W. King. The answer denies that the "bond and mortgage were stolen from the plaintiff or taken without his…
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