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120 A.D. 93

Preston v. Arthur

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1907-06-07

Appeal by the plaintiff, Charles M. Preston, as receiver, etc., from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants Albee, entered in the office of the clerk -of the county of New York on the 16th day of December, 1906, upon the report of a referee.

Decided 1907-06-07

Clarke, J.:

¶1This case was tried before the same referee and at the same' time as that of Preston v. Albee, No. 2 (120 App. Div. 89), opinion filed herewith, and presented-the same character of case, the mortgage in suit being upon the house adjacent to the premises- under foreclosure in action Ho. 2.

¶2In action Ho. 2 the referee admitted- all the. documentary evidence and then dismissed the complaint. In the case under con *94sideration he excluded all of the documentary evidence, including the mortgage sued on, although acknowledged and recorded, and the bond, although executed and acknowledged, the only.document which he did- r'eceive being a copy of the articles of incorporation of the company. All.of this, evidence having been excluded, the plaintiff rested, whereupon the referee dismissed tli.e complaint -and made findings of fa'ct which .Were identical with those made by him in action No. 2.' He found, however, “ that the plaintiff duly establishéd by proof thé appointment ánd qualification of Charles M.. Preston as receiver of the New York Building-Loan- Banking Company,” although he had excluded, the certified copy of .the-judgment against the company .appointing Preston receiver, and a certified copy of the bond given.by Preston as such-receiver.

¶3. Such a judgment cannot- stand. -I-t is, therefore, reversed and a new trial ordered before another referee, with costs to the appellant to abide the. event! . - : -

¶4Ingraham, Laughlin, Scott and Lambert, JJ., concurred.

¶5Judgment, reversed-, new trial' ordered before anothér referee, costs to appellant to abide event. Settle order on notice.

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