Town of Huntington v. Titus
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, The Town of Huntington, from a final judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Suffolk on the 4th day of August, 1899, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Kings County Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam :
The very full and satisfactory consideration of the law and facts of this case by the learned judge at Special Term renders any further discussion thereof in this court unnecessary ; and we are quite content to affirm the judgment for the reasons given by Mr. Justice Wilmot M. Smith, with a single qualification which in nowise affects his conclusions. We doubt whether any distinction can be recognized by the courts growing out of the fact that a party is morally an innocent purchaser if he be not an innocent purchaser in the eyes of the law. This characterization of the defendant…
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