Kophen v. Cornell

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (O’Brien, III, J.), entered March 3, 1998 in Madison County, upon a decision of the court in favor of defendants.

In November 1994, plaintiff and defendants James Cassano and Jeffrey Cassano submitted offers for the purchase of real property located in the Town of Sullivan, Madison County, owned by the estate of Josephine Camardello. Because the executor of the estate, defendant Stephen Cornell, was going to be out of the State for a two-week period, he executed both purchase offers with instructions to Frank Vavonese, the estate’s attorney, that it…