Hicks v. Pearsall
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Elizabeth P. Hicks, from a judg- . ment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Dutchess on the 1st day of April, 1914, dismissing the complaint upon the merits upon the decision of the court after a trial at the Dutchess Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Jenks, P. J.:
Charles Brown devised certain lands to his daughter, Mrs. Jane Ann Pearsall, for life, with remainder to her five children. In 1872 Mrs. Pearsall, her husband and such of the said children as then were of age conveyed these lands to Doty, who in exchange conveyed to Mrs. Pearsall certain lands known as the “ store property.” When, in 1874, this plaintiff, one of the said five children, became of age, she also executed a conveyance to the said Doty of an undivided one-fifth interest in the said farm lands. The conveyance of the “ store property ” by Doty to Mrs. Pearsall was in…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Bell v. . MerrifieldNew York Court of Appeals · 1888
- Jenkins v. . FaheyNew York Court of Appeals · 1878
- Clemens v. ClemensNew York Court of Appeals · 1867
- Drake v. DrakeAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1901
- Hicks v. PearsallAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1912
3Cited by1 opinion
- Allen v. LitchardNew York Supreme Court · 1916