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30 A.D. 183

Snyder v. Ash

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1898-07-01

Appeal by the defendant, Harriet M. Ash, by Benjamin W. File, her guardian ad litem, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the cleric of the county of Rensselaer on the 10th day of February, 1898, upon the report of a referee, as subjects her estate in the mortgaged premises to the lien of the mortgage sought to be foreclosed in the action.

Relies on Haviland v. . Willets · Wager v. . Troy Union Railroad Company · Hutchins v. . Hutchins

Decided 1898-07-01

Landon, J.:

¶1The mortgage in terms covers the entire premises without reservation or exception and, therefore, covers the wife’s estate in the undivided two-fifths thereof. (1 R. S. J48, § 1.) Cases like Power v. Lester (25 N. Y. 535) and Gillig v. Maass (28 id. 191), are to. the effect that in respect of the husband’s lands .the joinder of the wife with him in the -mortgage thereof only operates to release her contingent right of dower. Such was the effect here in respect of the husband’s portion of the mortgaged lands. But the mortgage also covers the wife’s portion of the premises. This portion the husband could not incumber, but she could, and did. The mortgage has the effect which its terms express. There is no ambiguity.in it.- The parol evidence offered as to what the mortgagee said as to the effect of her execution of it contradicts its- terms, and was, therefore, properly excluded. (Hutchins v. Hutchins, 98 N. Y. 56.) Even if admitted, it would fall short of proving that, she was misled thereby. If regarded as a misrepresentation as .to its legal effect, then it was a mistake in law; and, in order to .relieve the wife from its consequences and thrust them upon the mortgagee, the mortgagee must be shown guilty of some lack of good faith inducing the mis^ *185take. (Haviland v. Willets, 141 N. Y. 50; Berry v. Am. Central Ins. Co., 132 id. 49.) There was no offer to show this.

¶2The judgment must be affirmed, with costs.

¶3All concurred, except Herrick, J., dissenting.

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