Barber v. Woolf
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Simeon M. Barber, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 12th day of April, 1915, granting the motion of a purchaser at a tax lien sale to be relieved of his bid.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
The respondent purchased at a tax lien sale a piece of real property which formerly lay wholly within the lines of Seventh avenue as laid down on a private map known as the map of Mt. Eden, filed in 1854, and subsequently shown as Bockwood street on a public map filed by the park department in 1819. The lot in question lay in front of and abutted upon a lot known as lot Mo. 51 on the Mt. Eden map, which was conveyed by a description referring to that map, in 1855, by Thomas 0. Woolf and others, who had made and filed the map, to Isaac Minzesheimer, from whom Charles Minzesheimer…
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