Ostrander v. Bell
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The People of the State of New York, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hamilton on the 13th day of July, 1921, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial by the court without a jury in an action for partition.
1Opinion of the Court
•Van Kirk, J.:
The plaintiff Harriet E. Ostrander is the wife of George N. Ostrander apd the defendant Stella Phelps Bell is the wife of Frank L. Bell; each is made a party on account of inchoate dower right interests. The State is properly made a party. (Code Civ. Proc. § 1594.)
The premises in question are lot 19, in the Oxbow Tract, Hamilton county, except fifty-six acres, the northwest corner of the lot, which it is conceded belongs to the State and is not affected by the judgment herein. When we speak of the premises as lot 19, we mean the lot (which contains two hundred and seventy-four…
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