Thompson v. . Simpson
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered upon an order made January 16, 1891, which affirmed a judgment in favor of defendants, entered upon a verdict directed by the court and affirmed an order denying a motion for a new trial. This was an action of ejectment. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered upon an order made January 16, 1891, which affirmed a judgment in favor of defendants, entered upon a verdict directed by the court and affirmed an order denying a motion for a new trial. This was an action of ejectment. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. By the deed of A. W. Thompson and his wife, Hiss Bitchie, in 1853, to Glover, no greater interest passed than the grantors possessed, i. e., the life estate as tenant by the curtesy. (1 R. S. 739, § 143; Sparrow v.…
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, J.
The title to the lot on Hudson street in the city of Hew York, the subject of this action, vested in 1837, on the death of Evelina Hammond, in her daughter, Mary E-velina Thompson, wife of Ambrose W. Thompson, in fee, and upon her death, in 1845, descended to their five infant children, one son and four daughters, subject to the life estate of her husband, as tenant by the curtesy, who survived'her and died in 1882.
Ambrose W. Thompson, in 1847, about two years after the death of his first wife, intermarried with Mary Ewing Bitchie, his second wife, she having the same baptismal name and the…
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