Reich v. Cochran
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Alexander Smith Cochran and another, individually and as executors and trustees, etc., from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 2d day of March, 1914, overruling a demurrer to the amended complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
This is an action in equity to compel the executors of William F. Cochran, deceased, to account to plaintiff for said Cochran’s acts as mortgagee in possession of a certain leasehold estate.
The leasehold in question is one created on February 24, 1886, by a lease from the trustees of the estate of William B. Astor, deceased, to plaintiff of the premises known as 328 to 334 Fifth avenue, in the city of New York. The lease was for the term of five years, which, upon the performance of certain conditions by the lessee, might be extended for fifteen years longer, at the end of which…
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