Legal Opinion

Richards v. Stillman

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided January 15, 1901Published

Appeal by the defendant, Sarah. G-. Watson, as executrix, etc., of Thomas H. Watson, deceased, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 19th day of December, 1899,' upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Kings County Special Term, as directs her to pay any of the deficiency referred to in said judgment, so far as such deficiency shall embrace . the…

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Appeal by the defendant, Sarah. G-. Watson, as executrix, etc., of Thomas H. Watson, deceased, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 19th day of December, 1899,' upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Kings County Special Term, as directs her to pay any of the deficiency referred to in said judgment, so far as such deficiency shall embrace . the plaintiff’s costs and allowances therein allowed.

1Opinion of the Court

Woodward, J.:

One Mary A. Poole, on or about May 39,1889, executed and delivered to the plaintiff a bond bearing the above date, in the penal sum of $9j000, conditioned to pay to the plaintiff the sum of $4,500 on June 1, 1892, togéther with interest thereon from the date thereof, at the rate of six per cent per annum, payable semi-annually. Simultaneously with this bond, and to secure the payment thereof, the said Mary A.' Poole executed and delivered to the plaintiff a certain mortgage which this action was brought to foreclose. By several mesne conveyances the defendant Francis H. Stillman…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Glacius v. . FogelNew York Court of Appeals · 1882
  2. Bradley v. BurwellNew York Supreme Court · 1846

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