71 N.Y. Sup. Ct.
Volume 71 — New York Supreme Court Reports
127 opinions
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 163Williams v. Second Congregational Society (1892)
Appeal by Franklin A. Williams, executor of and a legatee under the will of Timothy D. Porter, deceased, from a decree of the surrogate of Chenango county, entered in his office on the 27th day of July, 1891, adjudging a certain legacy to be valid and declaring it to be a lien upon a farm devised by said Porter to said Williams.
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 369Peltz v. Schultes (1892)
Appeal by the defendants, John A. Schultes and John Schultes, as executors of Mary Watson, deceased, from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of Albany county, entered on the 4th day of March, 1892, ordering them to render an account of all moneys and property received by said Mary Watson, deceased, and pay and deliver to the administrators, with the will annexed of Isaac H. Watson, any property in the hands of Mary Watson, at the time of her death, which belonged to the…
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 373Finley ex rel. Finley v. Hudson Electric Railway Co. (1892)
Appeal by the defendant, the Hudson Electric Railway Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Columbia on the 13th day of April, 1891, uponi a verdict for the plaintiff for $3,500 after a trial at the Columbia Circuit before the court and a jury; and also from an order denying a motion, made by the defendant upon the judge’s minutes, for a new trial, entered in said clerk’s office on the 9th day of April, 1891.
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 375People ex rel. Sutliff v. Board of Supervisors (1892)
Appeal by the defendant, the Board of Supervisors of Fulton County, from an order of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Fulton on the 22d day of March, 1892, requiring it to file a return to a writ of certiorari, or show cause why it, and its several members, should not be punished for a contempt.
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 377Beebe v. Board of Supervisors (1892)
Appeal by tbe plaintiff, George M. Beebe, from a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Sullivan on the 15th day of February, 1892, dismissing the complaint upon the merits, after a trial at the Sullivan Circuit before the court.
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 380Bullock v. Town of Durham (1892)
Appeal by the defendant, the Town of Durham, from a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Greene on the 18th day of September, 1891, upon a verdict for the plaintiff for $400, after a trial at the Greene County Circuit before the court and a jury, with notice of an intention to bring up for review upon the appeal an order denying a motion for a new trial.
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 384In re a Majority of the Trustees of Schuyler's Steam Tow-Boat Co. (1892)
Appeal by Michael Moran, Peter Cahill, Cynthia Cahill and Jarvis Masters from an order of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of Albany county on the 8th day of February, 1892, enjoining the appellants from taking any further proceedings in actions in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, in which they had filed libels against certain steamboats of the Schuyler Steam Tow-Boat Company, and also enjoining them from taking any…
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 391Erwin v. Dezell (1892)
Appeal by the plaintiff George Erwin from an order of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of St. Lawrence county on the 13th day of January, 1892, granting the defendant judgment upon a demurrer to the complaint, and from an interlocutory judgment of the same court, entered in said clerk’s office on the 3d day of February, 1892, sustaining the demurrer and dismissing the complaint with the usual leave to answer over.
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 394Hall v. Brennan (1892)
Appeal by the defendants, Fanny Brennan and John H. Bixby, as executors of George B. Bixby, deceased, from a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Saratoga on the 18th day of November, 1891, upon a recovery by the plaintiffs of $3,000, and interest and costs, after a trial at the Saratoga Circuit before the court.
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 398Bogardus v. Young (1892)
Appeal by tbe defendant Edwin Young, as executor of Thomas Cornell, deceased, from a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Ulster on the 11th day of February, 1892, upon a recovery by the plaintiff of $5,387.50 and costs, after a trial before a referee, with notice of an intention to bring up for review upon the 'appeal an order of said court, entered in said clerk’s office on the 9th day of February, 1892, confirming the report…
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 408People ex rel. Wooster v. Maher (1892)
Appeal by Edward A. Maher, Mayor of the City of Albany, from an order of the Supreme Court, entered, after a trial by the court at the Albany Circuit, in the clerk’s office of Albany county on the 25th day of November, 1891, commanding him, upon receipt of a peremptory writ of mandamus, to send written directions to the city engineer of the city of Albany to send written notice to the owners of the Albany Female Academy to remove a certain porch of said academy which…
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 417People ex rel. American Surety Co. v. Campbell (1892)
<p>Certiorari to review the determination or decision of Frank Campbell, Comptroller of the State of New York, whereby he, on February 3, 1892, declined to make any revision or readjustment of an account theretofore settled by him, as such comptroller, against the relator, the American Surety Company of New York, for taxes due the State for the year ending November 1, 1890.</p>
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 421Crawford v. Brokaw (1892)
Appeal by tbe defendant, Antoinette L. Brokaw, from a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Saratoga on the 31st day of January, 1891, upon a recovery by the plaintiff of $797; a verdict for $1,254.16, rendered upon a trial had at the Saratoga Circuit before the court and a jury, having been reduced upon a motion for a new trial.
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 424Mars v. Albany Savings Bank (1892)
Appeal by the defendant, the Albany Savings Bank, from an order of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of Albany county on the 4th day of January, 1892, denying its motion that Helen Stanley and Kate A. Judge be substituted, in its place, as defendants in the above-entitled action upon its payment into court of the sum claimed in the complaint, and that it be thereupon discharged from all liability by reason of said fund to the plaintiff, or to said…
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 428Bradley v. Shafer (1892)
Appeal by tlie defendants, Margaret Shafer and Robert Shafer, from a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Albany on the 4th day of February, 1891, upon a verdict for the plaintiff for $2,500, after a trial at the Albany Circuit before the court and a jury; also from an order of the same' court, entered in the same clerk’s office on the same day, denying a motion made by the defendants for a new trial upon the minutes, on the…
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 434People v. Ulster County Savings Institution (1892)
Appeal by Lewis A. Mitchell from an order made at a Special Term of the Supreme Court, held in Rensselaer county March 12, 1892, denying a motion to vacate certain orders staying the commencement of actions against the defendant, made on the return day of an order to show cause. The above-entitled action was brought by the attorney general under the provisions of section 278 of chapter 409 of the Laws of 1882, providing as follows: “ § 278.
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 444People ex rel. Webster v. Van Tassel (1892)
Appeal by William T. Van Tassel, Sheriff of Ulster county, from an order of the county judge of Ulster county, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Ulster on the 3d day of February, 1892, discharging, in habeas corpus proceedings, Grove Webster from imprisonment. The facts appear in the opinion of the county judge of Ulster county. The opinion of the county judge of Ulster county, referred to in the opinion of the General Term, is set forth in the note.*
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 453People ex rel. Patterson v. Reed (1892)
Appeal by the People of the State of New York and James M. Patterson, relator, from a final order of Hon. A. J. Cheritree, County Judge of Warren county, dated February 24, 1890, dismissing a writ of… Held: and the relator was returned thereto as delinquent in not attending certain specified drills and parades.
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 458Bookheim v. Alexander (1892)
Appeal by the defendant, Thomas Alexander, from a judgment, of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Albany on the 25th day of January, 1892, upon a verdict for the plaintiff for $116.72, after a trial at the Albany Circuit before the court and a jury. The action was brought upon a promissory note in the sum of $100. The answer, as a second defense and counter-claim, alleged as-follows: ■ First.
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 463Schimpf v. Sliter (1892)
Appeal by tbe defendant, Alonzo Sliter, from a judgment of tbe Supreme Court, entered in tbe office of tbe clerk of Albany county on tbe 5th day of January, 1891, upon a recovery by the plaintiff of $269.15 and interest and costs, after a trial before a referee.
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 467Van Brocklen v. Smeallie (1892)
Appeal by the plaintiff, Eli Yan Broeklen, from a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Montgomery on the 5th day of October, 1891, upon a verdict for the plaintiff, directed by the court, for six cents damages, after a trial at the Montgomery Circuit before the court and a jury; and also from an order, entered in said clerk’s office on the 6th day of October, 1891, denying a motion for a new trial.
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 632Furlong v. Agricultural Insurance (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 632Buckley v. Buckley (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 632Schwerin v. New York Elevated Railway Co. (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 632Gribbon v. Ganss (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 632Valentine v. Juch (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 632Bank of Pittsburgh v. Murphy (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 632Hallock v. Bacon (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 632Halloway v. Southmayd (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 632In re Blewitt (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 632La Tourette v. Decker (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 632Lane v. Moss (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 632Leach v. Vining (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 632Link v. Sheldon (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 632Peabody v. Cortada (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 632People ex rel. Ketcham v. Excise Commissioners (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 632Rauth v. Davenport (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 632Seymour v. Spring Forest Cemetery Ass'n (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 632Saltus v. Belford Co. (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 633People v. Stoddard (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634Donohue v. Joyce (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634In re the New York & Brooklyn Bridge Co. (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634Millott v. New York & New England Railroad (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634Ferris v. Fisher (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634Jackson v. De Grief (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634Phillips v. Phillips (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634Hartley v. Cataract Steam Engine Co. No. 2 (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634Johnson v. Bernheimer (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634Bleakley v. Sullivan (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634Board of Health v. Noyes (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634Casco National Bank v. Clark (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634Dow v. Dow (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634Enk v. Brooklyn City Railroad (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634Gilbert v. Board of Supervisors (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634Hewlett v. Jewessen (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634Hulse v. Nicholl (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634Hunt v. Griffen (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634Husson v. Oppenhelmer (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634International Tile Co. v. Ahlers (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634Jackson v. Claudio (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634Kelly v. Bloomingdale (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634Long Island Railroad v. Silverstone (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634People ex rel. Corwin v. Assessors of Middletown (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634People ex rel. Harper v. Adams (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634People ex rel. McGrath v. Board of Excise (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634Provost v. Provost (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634Robertson v. Caskey (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634Robinson v. West (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634Spruck v. McRoberts (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634Uchtmann v. Tonyes (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 634Van Wagener v. Royce (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635Adams v. East River Savings Institution (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635Fischer v. Blank (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635In re the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Post (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635In re the Probate of the Will of Philp (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635Kountze v. Flannigan (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635Myers v. Mayor of New York (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635People v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635Suydam v. New York Elevated Railroad (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635Tome v. Gerlach (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635Dayton v. McElwee Manufacturing Co. (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635Sixth Avenue Railroad v. Metropolitan Elevated Railway Co. (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635Fuchs v. Morris (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635Mayor of New York v. New York & Harlem Railroad (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635Cassidy v. Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635Danziger v. Falkenberg (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635De Frece v. National Life Insurance (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635Dyett v. Central Trust Co. (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635Gwalter v. New York Seal Plush (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635Haffey v. Lynch (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635Harding v. Field (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635In re the Metropolitan Elevated Railway Co. (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635Noble v. Carey (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635Norfolk & New Brunswick Hosiery Co. v. Arnold (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635Pellas v. Motley (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635People of State ex rel. Collins v. Donohue (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635Perkins v. Huntington (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635Ringler v. Reynolds (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635Roosevelt Hospital v. New York Elevated Railroad (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635Schwartz v. Livingston (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 635Western National Bank v. Wood (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 636Williams v. Clements (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 637Laney v. Laney (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 637Mochel v. Kroll (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 638Gates v. Citizens' National Bank (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 638People v. Hull (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 639Cochrane v. French (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 639Ferris v. Aldrich (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 639First National Bank v. Lindenmeyr (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 639Hope v. Brewer (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 639In re Swift (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 639Kelly v. Gould (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 639Maitland v. Godwin (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 639People v. Loew (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 639Rosellen v. Herzog (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 639Smith v. Martin Anti-Fire Car Heater Co. (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 639Smyth v. Mack (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 639Stelling v. Grobowsky (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 639Steubing v. New York Elevated Railroad (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 639Taendstiksfabrike Aktiebolaget Vulcan v. Myers (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 639Heywood v. Thacher (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 639Elmer v. Mutual Benefit Life Ass'n (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 639In re Phalen (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 639Stokes v. Mackey (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 639Uppington v. Pooler (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 639Wood v. Nesbitt (1892)
- 71 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 639In re Smyley (1892)