People v. Open Board of Stock Brokers Building Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Cross appeals by Bastus S. Bansom, receiver of the defendant, above-named, and by Samuel McMillen, purchaser, from portions of an order of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, made October 13,1882, which reversed two orders of Special Term, one of which directed said McMillen, the purchaser of certain premises at a sale made by said receiver, to complete his purchase; the other denied a motion by said McMillan to be relieved from said…
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Cross appeals by Bastus S. Bansom, receiver of the defendant, above-named, and by Samuel McMillen, purchaser, from portions of an order of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, made October 13,1882, which reversed two orders of Special Term, one of which directed said McMillen, the purchaser of certain premises at a sale made by said receiver, to complete his purchase; the other denied a motion by said McMillan to be relieved from said purchase. (Beported below, 28 Hun, 274.) The order of the General Term contained this clause : “ Said receiver,…
1Opinion of the CourtFinch, J.
An examination of the title questioned by the purchaser discloses two deeds, which constitute links in the chain, from an executor to a third person, and from the latter back to the executor under whom, as an individual, the present vendor claims. The deeds are dated within four days of each other, and were recorded upon the same day with an interval of but five minutes between. The person through whom the title thus passed to the executor bore the same family name, arid a search in the surrogate’s office shows that no accounting or settlement of the estate has been had before that officer.…
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