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144 A.D. 843

Lasher v. McDermott

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

Appeal by „the defendant, Thomas F. McDermott, as executor, etc., from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Rensselaer on the 1st day of September,. 1910, as amended, upon the decision of the court rendered after at trial a the Rensselaer Trial Term, the parties having stipulated at the close of the-case that there was no question to he submitted to the jury for determination.

Decided 1911-05-03

Smith, P. J. (concurring):

¶1I concur in the result reached by Mr. Justice Kellogg upon the ground that this action was in equity against James Quest and the executor. As against the executor, the action simply related to the personal property, and an action ordinarily will not lie for specific performance of a contract to transfer personal property. With the real estate found in the hands of a bona fide holder, if substituted damages may be allowed, those *846substituted damages must be against the party from whoni the plaintiff might otherwise be entitled to have specific performance for the conveyance of the land. The plaintiff has in fact brought his action for specific performance of a contract and recovered a legal judgment against the executor for a breach of the contract, and this in the face of proper objection upon the part of the executor’s counsel. .

¶2I, therefore, vote for reversal and a new trial.-

¶3Judgment reversed and new trial granted, with costs to appellant to abide event;

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