Byrnes v. Palmer
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, William D. Palmer and Annie S. Hoffman, as .executors, etc., of. Arthur T. Hoffman,'deceased, from •an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Westchester Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 12th day of December, 1896, vacating a judgment in favor of the defendants entered in the action and granting the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made on a case and exceptions.
1Opinion of the Court
Cullen, J.:
This action is brought to. recover damages for the negligence of the defendants’ testator, who passed the title to certain lands in Westcliester county, examined by him at the instance of the plaintiff, who became the purchaser thereof. The plaintiff was ousted from the possession of his lands by the judgments in two actions of ejectment brought against him by Hawley D. Clapp and Nelly V. B. Clapp. The report of the decision of these two cases on appeal is found in 3 Appellate Division at page 284. The defect in the title and the question of its effect were previously decided in…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- People Ex Rel. Reilly v. JohnsonNew York Court of Appeals · 1868
- Woodgate v. . FleetNew York Court of Appeals · 1870
- Watts-Campbell Co. v. YuenglingNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
- Hill v. . BurkeNew York Court of Appeals · 1875
- Clapp v. McCabeNew York Supreme Court · 1895
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