Legal Opinion

Seymour v. Seymour

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided July 1, 1898PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Appeal by the defendants, William Seymour and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 27th day of November, 1897, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Westchester Special Term, decreeing the specific performance of an agreement to execute a mortgage.

1Opinion of the Court

Woodward, J. :

On the 4th day of May, 1892, the plaintiff in this action, a maiden aunt of the defendant William Seymour, loaned him the sum of $2,000, taking a mortgage, in which the defendant Maria D. Sey*496mour joined, upon the farm of the defendant William Seymour in the'town of Yorktown, Westchester county. This mortgage was duly recorded. Subsequently, and on the 24th day of July, 1894, the plaintiff in this action delivered a discharge- and- satisfaction of this- mortgage to the defendant William Seymour, and this discharge was duly entered in the records of the county. On the 1st day of…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Sterry v. ArdenNew York Court of Chancery · 1814

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Doucet v. Massachusetts Bonding & InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1917
  2. Kirchhoff v. GerliAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1916
  3. Davies v. JonesNew York Supreme Court · 1899
  4. McKenna v. Brooklyn Union Elevated RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1904
  5. Drummond v. AkselradDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 2023

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