Hutton v. Consolidated Briarwood Estates
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Consolidated Briarwood Estates and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 14th day of May, 1918, upon the decision of the court after a trial at the Kings County Special Term.
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Appeal by the defendants, Consolidated Briarwood Estates and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 14th day of May, 1918, upon the decision of the court after a trial at the Kings County Special Term. The judgment directed George I. Skinner, as Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York, to pay from any funds of the defendant Union Bank of Brooklyn to the plaintiff, $3,090.63, and further decreed a vendee’s lien upon the two lots purchased by plaintiff from the Briarwood Land Company of…
1Opinion of the Court
Putnam, J.:
Before the Union Bank closed, it had taken over the real estate operations of the Consolidated Briarwood Estates, which was a reorganization of a land development company originally called the Briarwood Land Company. On June 28, 1907, the Briarwood Land Company had sold plaintiff, who was a city fireman,- two lots on installments for a total' price of $1,700. On final payment it was to execute a deed of the lots free of incumbrances, with a policy of title insurance. It also covenanted to grade all streets and lay cement sidewalks, plant shade trees, lay water and gas mains, also…
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- United States Trust Co. v. Wabash Western Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1893
- Woodruff v. . Erie Railway CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1883
- In Re the Matter of the Examination of the Union BankNew York Court of Appeals · 1912
- Commercial Publishing Co. v. . BeckwithNew York Court of Appeals · 1901
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- In re BroderickNew York Supreme Court · 1931