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125 A.D. 230

Springstead v. Nees

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1908-03-06

Appeal by the plaintiffs, Anna Springstead and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 30th day of March', 1907, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the Kings County Special Term, dismissing the complaint upon the merits.

Decided 1908-03-06

Hooker, J. (dissenting):

¶1The circumstances surrounding the opening of the strong box after decedent’s death, and the finding there of a deed running to the defendants and the conversation then between the children, seem, to me such as to present a situation where there was at least color of a valid claim by the plaintiffs, by reason of their heirship, to the Atlantic avenue property; one of these circumstances is that the box where the deed was found belonged to the decedent, and it might well be doubted whether there had ever been a delivery of the deed before the grantor’s death, which was necessary to pass title ; if such claim was open to be urged, there was consideration for the promise. The judgment should be reversed.

¶2Judgment affirmed, with costs.

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