Moufang v. State

This is an appeal from an order of the Court of Claims permitting claimants to file a claim against the State of New York. Unless the proposed claim constitutes a cause of action against the State the order should be reversed. Since the facts in support of the claim are not in dispute the validity of the order appealed from is for all practical purposes decisive of the whole matter.

In February, 1894, a final judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, in a partition action (Hallenbeck v. Hallenbeck), directed, among other things which the record does not reveal, that a fund of $1,753.34 be…