Goodnow v. Pope
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, rendered in the Municipal Court of the city of Hew York (tenth district), borough of Manhattan.
1Opinion of the Court
Per Guriam.
Rachel McAuley was in her lifetime the owner of an apartment-house in this city, and mortgaged it to one Winsten H. Hagan, who assigned the mortgage to Elizabeth L. Goodnow. Rachel McAuley afterwards died leaving a will wherein Hagan was appointed sole executor. What the will provided, or what *476powers it conferred upon the executor respecting the real estate does not appear, except that Mr. Hagan testified, without objection, that the will gave him general power to make leases. He did, in October, 1898, lease two apartments to the above-named tenant, who, at the time of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hubbell v. . MoulsonNew York Court of Appeals · 1873
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