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144 A.D. 825

Zeiser v. Cohn

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1911-05-03

Appeal by the defendants, Sara Oppehheim Cohn, individually and as executrix, etc., and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Albany on the 22d day of December, 1910, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Albany Trial Term, a jury having been waived. •

Decided 1911-05-03

Per Curiam:

¶1We have examined the facts and are satisfied they well sustain the judgment. The plaintiff was not bound to elect whether he would pursue Jacob Cohn alone or Theresa Cohn. Theresa received Jacob’s property and agreed to pay the plaintiff’s .debt, with interest, and the plaintiff could sue either or both. The propriety of the form of action is settled by our former decision. (See 118 App. Div. 9.13.) The record establishes that the present defendants have certain property which originally passed from Jacob Cohn to Theresa Cohn as- a consideration for her agreement to pay plaintiff’s debt, and that there is with the Albany county treasurer certain surplus moneys which are the proceeds of some of the real estate conveyed by Jacob to Theresa. The parties who are beneficially -interested in said property and moneys take them by representation from Theresa Cohn, and equity may well consider them charged with the payment of plaintiff’s claim. A court of equity does not find it. necessary to name its remedies or the kind of relief which it is administering: It is sufficient to call it equitable relief. Under all the circumstances of this case it is equitable as between the parties to this action that the property and moneys in question should be charged with the plaintiff’s debt. The judgment is, therefore, affirmed, with costs.

¶2All concurred; Smith, P. J., in result.

¶3Judgment unanimously affirmed, with costs.

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