In re Coss
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by-Henry De Freest, as executor, etc., of Richard M. De Freest, deceased, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Albany Special Term -and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Rensselaer on the 3d day of January, 1911, restoring for record certain mortgages which had been discharged, of record.
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, P. J.:
Charles M. Coss was the owner of certain land in the city of Troy, upon which were two mortgages which had been exe*833cuted by him and thereafter purchased by him with moneys belonging to his son, Harry G\ Goss. The assignments were taken to him as general guardian of said Harry G-. Goss. After the said Harry Gr. Goss became of age these mortgages were satisfied by the recording of satisfaction pieces executed by Charles M. Goss as general guardian, and also by Harry G-. Goss. The satisfaction of these mortgages is claimed to have been made for the purpose of raising money upon a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Matter of the Petition of LivingstonNew York Court of Appeals · 1866
3Cited by2 opinions
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- Iselin v. KochNew York Supreme Court · 1913