Matter of Price
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal by Mary E. Price from an order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, reversing an order of Special Term which set aside the report of a referee and denied the prayer of Henry S. Hewson, purchaser, to be refunded certain moneys paid by him upon the purchase of the interest of said Mary E. Price, an infant. Said order appealed from, also granted the prayer of said petitioner.
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Appeal by Mary E. Price from an order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, reversing an order of Special Term which set aside the report of a referee and denied the prayer of Henry S. Hewson, purchaser, to be refunded certain moneys paid by him upon the purchase of the interest of said Mary E. Price, an infant. Said order appealed from, also granted the prayer of said petitioner. (Reported below, 6 Hun, 513.) Proceedings in the above-entitled matter were commenced in 1868 to sell the real estate of said infant. The petition set forth, in substance, that…
1Opinion of the CourtFolger, J.
We are of the opinion that the order of the General Term should be affirmed.
This was an application to sell the real estate of Mary E. Jackson, an infant, in pursuance of the statute. (2 R. S., p. 194, § 170.) John Townshend, Esq., was therein appointed guardian of the infant, in relation to the proceedings on the application (id., § 171), and he has continued such ever since. Such a guardian is subject to the direction of any court having authority, in the paying over, investing and accounting for, ah moneys that shall be received by him, and must observe the orders and directions of the…
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