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103 A.D. 511

Graber v. Gault

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1905-07-01

Appeal by the plaintiffs, Peter Graber and another, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Hew York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 29th day of December, 1904, directing the clerk of the county of Hew York to cancel and discharge of record a judgment duly entered in the above-entitled action.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently February 1983

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Decided 1905-07-01

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Ingraham, J. (concurring):

¶1I concur in the result. I think that under section 1268 of the Code of Civil Procedure an application to cancel the lien of a judgment based upon the discharge in bankruptcy of the judgment debtor must be made by the bankrupt. This section gives the bankrupt a personal right to have the lien of a judgment, which but for the discharge would be a lien upon real estate, canceled, and there is no authority to cancel such a lien except on application of the bankrupt. I do not think, however, that this judgment ever wás a lien on the property described in the moving papers. The section provides that after his discharge a judgment against a bankrupt shall not be a lien on real property acquired by him subsequent to the discharge, and under this provision, the judgment in question was not a lien upon the real property of the moving parties. If the judgment was not a lien there was nothing for the court to do as it could not discharge a lien which did not exist.

¶2Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion denied, with ten dollars costs, with leave to renew on additional proof.

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