Gleason v. Shuart
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal-by the defendant, John D. Shuart, from a judgment of" the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the. county of Allegany on the 24th day of October, 1908, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 10th day of April, 1909, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
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Appeal-by the defendant, John D. Shuart, from a judgment of" the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the. county of Allegany on the 24th day of October, 1908, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 10th day of April, 1909, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes. The action was commenced on the 1th day of August, 1901, to recover from the defendant, who was the plaintiff’s grantor of certain premises described in the complaint and located…
1Opinion of the Court
McLennan, P. J.:
The material facts are not in controversy, and only questions of law are presented by this appeal. On the 12th day of September, 1899, the defendant and his wife by deed conveyed to the plaintiff, in fee simple, a lot in the village of Belfast, county of .Allegany, N. Y., which was therein described as follows : “ All that tract or parcel of land situate in the Town of Belfast, County of Allegany and State of New. York, in the village of Belfast, and described as part of Block number five in. said village and bounded as follows, viz: Commencing at the Northeast corner of the…
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