Williamson v. Field
New York Court of Chancery
This was an application, by the defendants, to stay the proceedings upon a decree of the late assistant vice chancellor of the first circuit, until the decision of the chancellor upon their appeal from such decree.
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This was an application, by the defendants, to stay the proceedings upon a decree of the late assistant vice chancellor of the first circuit, until the decision of the chancellor upon their appeal from such decree. The bill was filed against the executors and trustees, and the hens at law, of Moses Field deceased, to obtain a conveyance of the legal title to lot number 257 Broadway, in the city of New-York; and for an account and payment of the rents and profits, received by the testator in his lifetime, or by his executors and trustees after his death. The decree declared that the…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The decree in this case appears to have oeen final, so far as related to the payment of the balance which should be found due by the master, and so far as related to the transfer of the legal title of the premises to the complainants, and the surrender of the possession. But it is an interlocutory decree; inasmuch as the question of costs is not disposed of, and the right is reserved to the parties to set the cause down for a hearing for further directions, not inconsistent with the decree already made. And I see no reason to change the opinion which I formerly expressed, that…
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