Williams v. Estate of Cameron
New York Supreme Court
THIS was an appeal from an order made at a special term, granting to the claimants leave to bring an action against the estate of the lunatic. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Mitchell, P. J.
Cameron, a short time before he was declared a lunatic, but while he was a lunatic, went to the store of Williams, Stevens & Willims, to purchase an oval mirror. While there he conversed about the pictures there and bought some, for several hundred dollars. They were sent to his house at Staten Island, and he in the course of the same or the next day, washed out the colors and destroyed the gilding of the frame of one of them, by an alkali. He told the agent of W., S. & W. that he did this to discover if he had been imposed upon, and if the paintings were not…
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