People v. . Turner
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered upon an order made September 24, 1888, which affirmed a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, entered upon a verdict. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The court erred in holding that under chapter 448, Laws of 1885, the comptroller’s deed was conclusive.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered upon an order made September 24, 1888, which affirmed a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, entered upon a verdict. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The court erred in holding that under chapter 448, Laws of 1885, the comptroller’s deed was conclusive. (2 R. S. [8th ed.] 1098, § 19; 40 Barb. 644; 58 N. Y. 89, 90; 49 id. 349; 7 id. 517; 25 Hun, 186; Desty on Tax. 579; Ensign v. Barro, 107 N. Y. 346.) Chapter 448 of the Laws of 1885 is…
1Opinion of the Court
Ruger, Ch. J.
This is an appeal by defendant from an affirmance by the General Term of a judgment rendered upon a verdict at circuit for the plaintiff.
The action was commenced in December, 1886, to recover the statutory penalties for cutting and carrying away trees from lot No. 219, township No. 10 in the county of Franklin, being vacant lands constituting a part of the Forest Preserve, and belonging to the plaintiff. (Laws of 1885, chap. 283, § 11.)
The answer set up, first, a general denial, and, secondly, that the locus in quo belonged to the defendant.
No evidence was given on the trial that…
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