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13 Daly 449

Purdy v. Coar

New York Court of Common Pleas

Decided February 1, 1886

New York Court of Common Pleas · decided 1886-02-01

<p>Before a mortgage of real property, executed by the owner of the fee and his wife, had been recorded, they executed a deed of the mortgaged property to a third person, who immediately re-conveyed it to the wife. Upon a subsequent assignment of the mortgage, before the deed to the wife was recorded, the husband executed and delivered to the assignees a certificate that the mortgage was valid, and that there was no legal or equitable defense against it. Held, that the certificate of the husband was binding upon the wife, and operated to estop her, as a purchaser of the property, from any defense she might have as such against the validity of the mortgage, she having been a party to it and having had knowledge of it at the time she derived title, and there being no proof that the deed to her was delivered prior to the date of its record, which was subsequent to the date of the certificate.</p>

Relies on Smyth v. . Munroe · Weyh v. . Boylan · Lesley v. Johnson

Decided 1886-02-01

Larremore, Ch. J.

¶1[After stating the facts as above.] —The appellant claimed upon the trial and insisted upon the argument of the appeal that the certificate signed by her husband was not binding upon her, on the ground that at the date of the certificate, September 14th, 1884, she was the owner of the premises, and the certificate of her husband, the former owner, could not affect or estop her as a purchaser from any defense she might have as such purchaser against the validity of the mortgage. This proposition is not supported by authority. She was a party to the mortgage and therefore cannot deny knowledge of it at the time she derived title. Her husband was the owner of the premises when he executed the mortgage, in which she joined to free her right of dower. Coar was clearly entitled to give the certificate in question in order that the assignee of the bond and mortgage might be satisfied as to their validity. That certificate was an estoppel against the parties to it as privies and grantees (Lesley v. Johnson, 41 Barb. 359; Smyth v. Munroe, 84 N. Y. 354; Weyh v. Boylan, 85 N. Y. 394; Smyth v. Knickerbocker Life Ins. Co., 84 N. Y. 589; Smyth v. Lombardo, 15 Hun 415; Barnett v. Zacharias, 24 Hun 304; Real Estate Trust Co. v. Seagreave, 49 How. Pr. 489).

¶2As it appears by the record the delivery of the deed to the appellant was subsequent to that of the certificate, and there is no proof that it was delivered prior to the date of its record.

¶3This view of the case disposes of the various exceptions raised during the trial, and leads to the conclusion that the judgment appealed from should be affirmed.

¶4J. F. Daly and Bookstaver, JJ., concurred.

¶5Judgment affirmed.

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