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20 Jones & S. 541

Rogers v. Schell

The Superior Court of New York City

Decided December 7, 1885

The Superior Court of New York City · decided 1885-12-07

Action to recover $6,298.87, claimed to have been received by the defendant to and for the use of the plaintiff and her assignors. The referee found the following facts :—“In and prior to the year 1873, one John Eogers, father of the plaintiff, owned the fee of a lot lying between One hundred and eighty-second and One hundred and eighty-third streets, in the city of New York. The lot was mortgaged to the Manhattan Savings Bank. Eogers died July 17, 1871.

Decided 1885-12-07

¶1The Court at General Term, said :—“ Upon the facts found by the referee, the conclusion reached by him is entirely correct. The agreement between the defendant and the Eogers family, provided, that if he should bid upon the foreclosure sale more than the amount of the decree, the surplus should belong to him. His bid was in excess of the amount of the decree ; he paid it, and received back the surplus, under the arrangement, with the consent of all. To that he was entitled. Had the property, on a re-sale made by him, realized more than he paid, together with his disbursements on account of the property, the excess would have belonged to the family. But he has not re-sold. When he does sell, the plaintiff, or others entitled to the moneys realized on such re-sale, over and above what the defendant has paid on account thereof, will be entitled to the excess.

¶2The defendant offered, in his answer, to convey the property to any person whom the parties in interest will designate, on being reimbursed the moneys he has paid for the same. A re-sale, if desired by the parties in interest, could doubtless be reached through an action brought *543for the purpose of compelling it. But that is not this action.”

S. W. Fullerton, for appellant.Ira D. Warren, for respondent.

¶3Opinion by Van Vorst, J.; Sedgwick, Oh. J., and Freedman, J., concurred.

¶4Judgment affirmed, with costs.

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