Hughes v. Techt
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Elizabeth L. Hughes, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 22d day of March, 1919, upon a decision of the court dismissing the complaint on the merits and decreeing affirmatively that respondent is seized in fee simple absolute of an undivided one-half interest in the real property described in the complaint. The facts were stipulated.
1Opinion of the Court
Dowling, J.:
This action was brought to bar the defendant’s claim to certain real estate in the city of New York. The parties are sisters, the children of James J. Hanigan, widower, who died intestate, a resident of the city of New York, on December 27, 1917, leaving him surviving the plaintiff and the defendant, and no other child or children, or descendants of a deceased child or children, and no adopted child or children, or descendants of a deceased adopted child or children. For many years prior to 1899 he was the owner of certain real estate in the borough of Manhattan, city of New York.…
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