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21 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 176

In re Haight

New York Supreme Court

Decided May 15, 1878

New York Supreme Court · decided 1878-05-15

These proceedings were instituted to sell the interests of the petitioners herein in certain lands, their interests consisting of a vested remainder in the lands in which their mother had an estate for her life. The proceedings resulted in a contract for the sale of the lands to Wilde being entered into by the guardian andconfirmed by the court. Wilde refused to fulfill the contract, and this application was made to compel him to do so.

Decided 1878-05-15

Dykman, J.:

¶1This is a proceeding for the sale of the real estate of infants under the statute. The infants have an estate in remainder in *177the land, and the .question is whether such an interest can be sold in this way. This same question was presented to this court in this district in the case of Jenkins v. Fahey (11 Hun, 351), and we there held that under the statute providing for the sale of the interest of infants in real estate, a sale can only be ordered in those cases where the infant is in the actual possession of the land, or entitled to the immediate possession of it. That case has now "been overruled by the Court of Appeals, and the law is thus established adversely to our views.

¶2The order is affirmed with costs and disbursements.

Present — Barnard, P. J., Gilbert and Dvkman, JJ.

¶3Order affirmed with ten dollars costs and disbursements.

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