Newcombe v. Ostrander

Plaintiff has brought this action against defendant to recover the sum of $1,403.38, with interest from June 25, 1914, which he claims as his share of the proceeds of the sale of certain timber upon what is known as the Moose Pond Tract, Essex county, N. Y. Prior to 1906, George R. Finch of Glens- Falls, N. Y., and John Anderson, Jr., of Newcomb, Essex county, N. Y., owned the tract equally as tenants in common. Finch died in January, 1906, and left a will, by which he gave his share to plaintiff, defendant and Anderson, equally, to each an undivided one-third. Thus plaintiff and defendant…