Adriance v. Clifford

This is an appeal by plaintiffs from an order of the Broome Special Term of the Supreme Court denying their motion to restore these cases to the Broome trial calendar and granting defendant’s cross motion to dismiss the cases for want of prosecution. The first action was brought to partition certain real property in Broome County and was commenced on January 11, 1943. The second action was brought to set aside as fraudulent a conveyance to defendant of an undivided one-half interest in the same property which was commenced on September 29, 1943. During the years 1944 and 1945 plaintiffs…