Putnam v. Putnam
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs, John Lewis Putnam and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the. county of Saratoga on the 30th day of January, 1902, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the Saratoga Special Term, dismissing the complaint upon the merits.
1Opinion of the Court
Kellogg, J.:
This appeal involves the interpretation of a grant by way of mortgage and what was intended to be passed to the mortgagee under the words of the grant, “ together with the appurtenances.”
The action is brought to partition an irregular strip of land in the village of Saratoga Springs. As appears by the map the strip fronts on a street fourteen feet and extends back about eighty feet, then extends at right angles westerly about forty feet with a width of about twenty-five feet. Its northerly end is bounded by what was known as the Putnam homestead, and formed the outlet of that…
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