Brantingham v. Huff
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, May Thorne Brantingham, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk'of the county of Richmond on the 21st day of January, 1899, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the Kings County Special Term, dismissing the complaint upon the merits, with notice of an intention to bring up for review upon such appeal an interlocutory decree entered in said clerk’s office on the 19th day…
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Appeal by the plaintiff, May Thorne Brantingham, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk'of the county of Richmond on the 21st day of January, 1899, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the Kings County Special Term, dismissing the complaint upon the merits, with notice of an intention to bring up for review upon such appeal an interlocutory decree entered in said clerk’s office on the 19th day of' March, 1898, overruling the plaintiff’s demurrer to the defense set up in the 4th clause of the answer of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Cullen, J.:
This action is brought against the devisees and grantees of one Joseph Thorne, deceased, to compel the specific performance of a contract alleged to have been made between the mother .of the plaintiff, her only parent surviving at the time, and said Thorne, whereby the mother transferred her rights in the plaintiff to said Thorne and his wife who, in consideration thereof, agreed to adopt the plaintiff as their child, and upon their death to give to her all the property of which either might then be possessed. In the proceedings for the probate of Mr. Thorne’s will, the plaintiff…
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