Ludlow v. Rector
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Mary McLean Ludlow, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the défendant, entered in the office of the clerk jof the county of Suffolk on the 1st day of August, 1910, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the Suffolk Special Term, dismissing the complaint ■upon the merits. ; '
1Opinion of the Court
Thomas, J.:
The. mam question is .whether the. defendant has.any interest in a certain church lot. ! To the plaintiff was granted in 1897 a large tract of land by full covenant .deed, executed by Nicoll Ludlow, her husband, and others, descendants from the patentee of the king, and ydjiich became the sole property of Nicóll Ludlow’s mother, Frances Louisa Nicoll Ludlow, by virtue' of. *209a partition deed executed in 1846. During the last half of the eighteenth century the church lot was appropriated for the purposes of burial of persons related to the family of the owners, and others, and in 1165…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Bates v. Ledgerwood Manufacturing Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1891
- Trustees of St. Jacob'S Lutheran Church of Eden v. BlyNew York Court of Appeals · 1878
- In Re the Trustees of the Congregational Church & Society of CutchogueNew York Court of Appeals · 1892
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- Ludlow v. Rector of St. John's Church in IslipAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1911