New York Court of Appeals, 1867

201 opinions

Charles B. Colburn, Appellant v. Alanson P. Morton and Horace Gaylord, Respondents 1867-01
James Van Etten, Respondent, v. William Currier, Appellant 1867-01
Mabel Reynolds, Respondent, v. Schuyler Reynolds, Appellant 1867-01
The People ex rel. Auguste Noel et al., Respondents, v. Richard Kingsland, Appellant 1867-01
Allen Comstock, Appellant, v. Samuel Ames and others, Executors of Alraz Hayes, deceased 1867-01
Eunice Parker, Appellant, v. Porter McCluer, Respondent 1867-01
James H. Case, Respondent, v. Hiram A. Hotchkiss, Appellant 1867-01
William J. Blydenburgh, Executor, etc., Appellant, v. Horace Thayer, Respondent 1867-01
The Mechanics Bank of the City of New York, Respondent, v. John Straiton, Charles G. Sanford and Thomas J. Raynor, Appellants 1867-01
Samuel W. Wright, Respondent, v. Jacob Sanders, Appellant 1867-01
Margaret P. Bunn, Executrix, etc., of Oakley Bunn, deceased, Respondent, v. William Vaughan, Appellant 1867-01
The New York and New Haven Railroad Company, Appellant, v. Morris Ketchum and Edward Bement, Survivors, etc., Respondents 1867-01
The Commercial Bank of Clyde, Appellant, v. The Marine Bank, Respondent 1867-01
Calvin Day, and others, Appellants, v. Thomas P. Saunders, Respondent 1867-01
Charles H. Van Dusen, as Receiver of Philo Haskins, Respondent, v. Daniel Worrell, Appellant 1867-01
Joseph Stringham, Appellant, v. The St. Nicholas Insurance Company, Respondent 1867-01
Alexander L. Shaw, Appellant, v. William N. Smith, Respondent 1867-01
Abraham X. Parker, Trustee, Appellant, v. Benjaman F. Jervis and others, Respondents 1867-01
Jarvis N. Lake, Appellant, v. The Artisans Bank, Respondent 1867-01
William M. Mallory, Respondent, v. The Tioga Railroad Company, Appellant 1867-01
John G. Ritchmyer, Respondent, v. Burton G. Morss and others, Appellants 1867-01
Jerome Phillips, Respondent, v. Isaac Terry, Appellant 1867-01
The Bank of Auburn, Respondent, v. Lewis Putnam, President, etc., impleaded, etc., Appellant 1867-01
Michael Fay, Respondent, v. George ONeill, Appellant 1867-01
Thomas Clark, Respondent, v. The Eighth Avenue Railroad Company, Appellants 1867-01
Joseph Barton v. The City of Syracuse 1867-01
Alexander M. Lawrence v. Ralph Clark and others 1867-01
Loren L. Tompkins, Respondent, v. Titus Ives, Appellant 1867-01
Abraham B. Van Benthuysen, Appellant, v. Milton Sawyer and Charles H. Faxon, Respondents 1867-01
Darius Perrin v. The New York Central Railroad Company 1867-01
Henry P. Smith, Respondent, v. Albert H. Tracy, Executor, etc., Appellant 1867-01
William B. Renwick et al., Administrators, etc., of Robert Renwick, deceased, Respondents, v. The New York Central Railroad Company, Appellant 1867-01
Samuel H. Hartshorne v. The Union Mutual Insurance Company 1867-01
Ann Curran, Administratrix, v. The Warren Chemical and Manufacturing Company 1867-01
Moses Chamberlain, Appellant, v. Jane R. Dempsey, Respondent 1867-01
Harvey F. Aubery, Respondent, v. Josiah M. Fiske, Appellant 1867-01
The People, Defendants in Error, v. Aaron M. Davis, Plaintiff in Error 1867-01
Charles Wall et al., Appellants, v. The Home Insurance Company, Respondent 1867-01
The Northwestern Insurance Company, Appellant, v. Marshall W. Ferward et al., Respondents 1867-01
John A. Merritt, Respondent v. Horace Bartholick, Appellant 1867-01
Robert MKee, Plaintiff in Error v. The People, etc., Defendants in Error 1867-01
The People ex rel. Peter Cagger v. Thomas Dolan and others, Assessors of the city of Albany 1867-01
Stephen Brush, Executor, Respondent, v. Wm. Lee and others, Appellants 1867-01
Henry W. Ward, Appellant, v. Elisha Ruckman, Respondent 1867-01
Charles A. L. Gram et al., Appellants, v. The Prussia Emigrated Evangelical Lutheran German Society, etc., and others, Respondents 1867-01
Richard M. Hoe and others, Respondents, v. Jesse Sanborn, Appellant 1867-01
Samuel H. Smith v. Henry L. Babcock and others 1867-01
The Artisans Bank, Respondent, v. Charles C. Backus, Appellant 1867-01
Sarah L. Cooke, an infant, etc., Respondent, v. Samuel M. Meeker and William Conselyea, Appellants 1867-01
Peter M. McLaren, Appellant, v. Martin McMartin, Administrator of Daniel McMartin, Jr., deceased, Respondent 1867-01
Myles Sheridan, Administrator, v. The Brooklyn City and Newtown Railroad Company 1867-01
Dangald McQueen, Appellant, v. Sarah Babcock, Respondent 1867-03
Laura P. Smith, Executrix, etc., of Anson D. Smith, dedeceased, Respondent, v. Russell Martin et al., Administrators, etc., and John K. Comstock, impleaded, etc., Appellants 1867-03
Samuel Wilson, Respondent, v. The New York Central Railroad Company, Appellant 1867-03
Henry Drew, Respondent, v. The Sixth Avenue Railroad Company, Appellant 1867-03
Gabriel Disoway, Respondent, v. Joseph C. Winant, Appellant 1867-03
John W. Turner and others, Respondents, v. The Bank of Fox Lake, Appellant 1867-03
Henry Solmes, Appellant, v. The Rutgers Fire Insurance Company, Respondent 1867-03
Martin Waters, Appellant, v. John E. Green, Julia A. Green and Richard C. Green, Respondents 1867-03
Edwin Clark and David B. O. Ford, Administrators, with the will annexed, of the estate of Nathan Ford, deceased, and as owners of certain portions of the estate of said deceased, Appellants, v. Chilson Ford, late Administrator of said estate, Respondent 1867-03
The Fire Department of the City of Troy, Respondent, v. Jared G. Bacon and Joseph Maulin, Appellants 1867-03
John Craig, Respondent, v. William H. Ward and Charles L. Clarke, Appellants 1867-03
Alfred Ely, Respondent, v. Luther T. Norton, Appellant 1867-03
Charles C. Duncan and others, Respondents, v. The Great Western Insurance Company, Appellants 1867-03
Perry G. Tanner, Respondent, v. Anson C. Parshall, Appellant 1867-03
Nelson Howell, Respondent, v. David H. Gould, Appellant 1867-03
The People of the State of New York, Plaintiffs in Error, v. Henry E. Maring, Defendant in Error 1867-03
George M. Mittnacht, Appellant, v. John Kelly, Sheriff, etc., Respondent 1867-03
Charles Cornell, Respondent, v. Matilda D. Woolley, Executrix, etc., Appellant 1867-03
Daniel Douglass, Respondent, v. William Day, David P. Hall and Edgar M. Smith, Appellants 1867-03
Christian Brand, Appellant, v. Hiram Focht and another, Respondents 1867-03
Israel Elias and Aaron Elias, Appellants, v. Benjamin Farley, Respondent 1867-03
Nathan Lyman, Respondent, v. Harry Wilber, impleaded, Appellant 1867-03
William Newell, Appellant, v. Ezra Wheeler, Frederick Lacey, Thomas Roundey, Jr., and Obadiah W. F. Randolph, Respondents 1867-03
James G. King and another, Plaintiffs in Error, v. The Mayor, etc., of New York, Defendants in Error 1867-03
The People ex rel. Fiedler, Appellant, v. James Mead, Supervisor, etc., Respondent 1867-03
William A. Husted and Selah C. Carll v. Daniel H. Craig 1867-03
Jerome A. Osborn, Respondent, v. Giles Robbins and Sterling Robbins, Appellants 1867-03
Garret Abeel and Peter M. Abeel v. Peter Van Gelder and Ezra Shoemaker 1867-03
Eliphalet Lyon, Executor of Thomas B. Stillman, Respondent, v. Samuel G. Mitchell, Appellant 1867-03
Phineas L. Ely, Successor, etc., Respondent, v. The Board of Supervisors of Niagara County, Appellant 1867-03
Hannah Tobias, Appellant, v. Ann E. Cohn and William Cohn, Respondents 1867-03
The People ex rel. Andrew McMullen, Mayor of Schenectady, Appellants, v. Wm. S. Shepard, Thomas Coleman, Stevens V. Trull, George W. Luther and Nelson Davenport, Respondents 1867-03
Thomas Robert, Respondent, v. William Good, Survivor, etc., Appellant 1867-03
John B. Trevor, Jr., and James B. Colgate, Appellants v. John Wood, George W. Wood and James Cullen, Respondents 1867-03
Charles Devlin, Appellant, v. James B. Brady, Respondent 1867-03
James M. Lewis, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Henry A. Mott, and Joseph B. Varnum, Jr., surviving executors, etc., of Joseph B. Varnum, deceased, Defendants and Respondents 1867-03
Eliphalet Lyon, Executor of Thomas B. Stillman, Respondent, v. Samuel G. Mitchell, Appellant 1867-03
Frank Lobdell et al., Respondents, v. Ammon Lobdell et al., Appellants 1867-03
Constant Cook v. James R. Barnes, Administrator, of Wood 1867-03
Eliza V. Vrooman, Respondent, v. Eliphalet King, Appellant 1867-03
Cornelius Vanderzee and Hannah Vanderzee, Respondents, v. John B. Vanderzee, Appellant 1867-03
Richard P. Bruff, Executor, v. Hippolite Mali and Otis P. Jewett 1867-03
The People of the State of New York v. Benjamin Brandreth and others 1867-03
Isabella Harrison, etc., Respondent, v. Thomas Harrison and others, Appellants 1867-03
John De Beerski, Appellant, v. George S. Paige. Respondent 1867-03
Serena Ferris, Respondent, v. The Union Ferry Company, Appellant 1867-03
Thomas S. Beals, Executor of, etc., of Thomas Beals, deceased, Appellant, v. The Home Insurance Company, Respondent 1867-03
John C. Devoy, Respondent, v. The Mayor and Aldermen of New York, Appellants; Carl Harbeck, Respondent, v. same Appellants 1867-03
Charles O. Shepard, Executor of Joseph Johnson, v. Horace S. Parker and Hugh Steele 1867-03
The People of the State of New York, Appellants, v. Alden Vilas et al., Respondents 1867-03
Augustus Maverick and Ellen G. Maverick his wife v. The Eighth Avenue Railroad Company 1867-03
Samuel J. Rockwell, etc., Respondent, v. Gurdon H. Brown, Appellant 1867-03
Walter M. Conkey, Respondent, v. Thomas H. Bond, Appellant 1867-03
Alexander S. Diven, Receiver of The Yates County Bank, v. Elizabeth Lee, Executrix, and Alfred Lee and Thomas Lee, Executors of the last will of Benjamin Lee, deceased 1867-03
Samuel Cott, Executor of Isaac Cott, deceased, Respondent, v. The Lewiston Railroad Company, Appellant 1867-03
The People ex rel. Floyd Dann and others, Appellants, v. Andrew Williams, Henry Wiard, and John Abbey, Commissioners of Highways of the town of Avon, Respondents 1867-03
Henry C. Adams, Appellant, v. The Fort Plain Bank, Respondent 1867-03
James Stewart & John S. Howell, Respondents, v. William A. Keteltas, Appellant 1867-03
The Boston Carpet Company, Respondents, v. Albert Journeay, Jr., and others, Appellants 1867-03
William R. Baskin, Respondent, v. Stephen Baskin and others, Appellants 1867-03
Amos Rowley v. The Empire Insurance Company 1867-03
George A. Cisco, Appellant, v. Marshall O. Roberts, Respondent 1867-03
Charles H. Buckmaster v. John Thompson and others 1867-03
Jane Westerlo, Appellant, v. Edward De Witt, Respondent 1867-03
Abram S. Onderdonk, Respondent, v. Jacob Voorhis, Jr., et al., Appellants 1867-03
Mortimer Brown, Respondent, v. Allen Penfield and others, Appellants 1867-03
Epenetus A. Willis, Appellant, v. Silas Mott, Executor, etc., of Samuel Mott, deceased, Respondent 1867-03
Isaac Wait v. Charles S. Green 1867-03
Robert B. Williams et al., Appellants, v. Benjamin B. Tilt, Thomas Thorp and Solomon Newman, impleaded with John S. Birch, Lucius B. Nutting and William G. Nutting, Respondents 1867-03
Henderson Tuttle, Plaintiff in Error, v. The People, Defendants in Error 1867-03
Lavinia Guernsey, Appellant, v. William G. Guernsey and others, Appellant and Respondents 1867-03
George A. Osgood and another, as Receivers of the Columbian Insurance Company, Appellants, v. William De Groot and Azra C. Peck, Respondents 1867-03
Jeremiah OBrien, Plaintiff in Error, v. The People, etc., Defendants in Error 1867-03
Edgar Hudler, Appellant, v. William Golden, Respondent 1867-03
Samuel Phillips, Appellant, v. Emma C. Wooster and George H. Wooster, Respondents 1867-03
Robert L. Van Bergen v. Thomas Bradley and others 1867-03
Charles Bliven & Edward B. Mead, Appellants, v. The Hudson River Railroad Company, Respondents 1867-03
The People ex rel. Gilbert Robinson v. Benjamin Ferris and others, referees 1867-03
The Attorney-General ex rel. Nicholas J. Marselus v. The Minister and Elders of the Dutch Reformed Protestant Church of New York 1867-03
Deborah Wood, Respondent, v. John J. Fleet, and others, Appellants 1867-03
The Irving Bank, in the city of New York, v. James Wetherald and others 1867-03
Reinold Schneider, Respondent, v. Benjamin B. McLane et al., Appellants 1867-06
Jared W. Moss, Administrator of Edward A. Moss, deceased, Respondent, v. George Brisbane, Appellant 1867-06
Amelia Traver, by her Guardian, Respondent, v. The Eighth Avenue Railroad Company, Appellant 1867-06
Joseph Burnett et al., Respondents, v. Edward Phalon et al., Appellants 1867-06
James Orton et al., Appellants, v. Lina Orton et al., Respondents 1867-06
Meroy Ranger, Appellant, v. Charles B. Goodrich, Respondent 1867-06
Amos Rowley, Respondent, v. The Empire Insurance Company, Appellant 1867-06
John McClelland, Respondent, v. George Remsen, Sheriff of Kings county, Appellant 1867-06
Austin Melvin et al., Respondents, v. James Wood, impleaded, etc., Appellant 1867-06
Willard Hatch, Respondent, v. Dan Pryor, Appellant 1867-06
Abraham B. Hasbrouck and others, Appellants, v. The Kingston Board of Health, Elijah Ellsworth, Collector, and Cornelius Burhans, Treasurer, of the Kingston School-district, Respondents; The People of the State of New York, Appellants, v. The Same, Respondents 1867-06
Thomas R. H. Depuy et al., Appellants, v. Austin Strong et al., Respondents 1867-06
John M. Bruce, Jr., et al., Appellants, v. James S. Davenport et al., Respondents 1867-06
Henry Rawls & Chas. S. Seymour, Respondents, v. John G. Deshler, Appellant 1867-06
John W. Mattice, Respondent, v. William G. Allen and others, Appellants 1867-06
David S. Gardiner, Appellant, v. Julia G. Tyler and Henry Beeckman, Respondents 1867-06
Harvey W. Hyde, Respondent, v. John P. P. Lathrop, Appellant 1867-06
Elizabeth Read, Respondent, v. The City of Buffalo, Appellant 1867-06
Harvey C. Dunham, etc., Respondent, v. Troy Union Railroad Company, Appellants 1867-06
William Barker, Appellant, v. William White and others, Respondents 1867-06
The Bank of the State of Indiana, Appellant, v. Oliver Bugbee, Respondent 1867-06
The Atlantic Dock Company, Respondent, v. The City of Brooklyn, Appellant 1867-06
Anthony Mason, Respondent, v. Benjamin M. Anthony, Appellant 1867-06
George Witherhead, Respondent, v. Elijah B. Allen et al., impleaded, etc., Appellants 1867-06
Jacob Staiger, Respondent, v. Jackson S. Schultz et al., Appellants 1867-06
William Doughty et al., Commissioners, etc., Appellants, v. Rowland Brill, Respondent 1867-06
Samuel Thomas, Respondent, v. Horace Hunt and Andrew Kingsley, Appellants 1867-06
Charles C. Merchant, Appellant, v. Frederick D. Bunnel and Wife, Respondents 1867-06
In the Matter of the Accounting of the Executors of Francis Saltus 1867-06
D. W. Tomlinson, Respondent, v. C. G. Miller, Appellant 1867-06
Rufus K. Delafield and George Baxter, Respondents, v. Aaron A. De Grauw, Appellant 1867-06
Christopher Van Deuzen, Laysel Bancroft, The Methodist Episcopal Church at Fort Edward, and Stephen B. Lee, Respondents, v. The Trustees of The Presbyterian Congregation at Fort Edward, Appellants 1867-06
G. A. Osgood and Cyrus Curtiss, Receivers of the Columbian Insurance Company, Respondents, v. William Laytin and others, impleaded, Appellants 1867-06
Mary Ring and Charles H. Richardson, Respondents, v. Daniel Steele and Elijah Smith, Appellants 1867-06
Smith Davis & Oliver Davis, Appellants, v. Cornelius R. Duffie et al., Respondents 1867-06
Richard Ratcliffe, Respondent, v. Horatio N. Gray, Appellant 1867-06
Dan S. Wright, Respondent, v. Thomas Paige, Appellant 1867-06
Theodorus F. Secor and others, Respondents, v. George Lord, Appellant 1867-06
Anna M. Cook, Administratrix of John F. Cook, deceased, Appellant, v. The New York Central Railroad Company, Respondent 1867-06
George Farnham et al., Respondents, v. William M. Mallory, Appellant 1867-06
Nathaniel Hayward, Appellant, v. The Liverpool and London Insurance Company, Respondent 1867-06
The Mayor, etc., of New York, Respondent, v. The Exchange Fire Insurance Company, Appellant 1867-06
Blaise Lorillard, Respondent, v. George W. M. Silver, Appellant 1867-06
Charles Frederick Russell, Appellant, v. William H. Russell and others, Respondents 1867-06
Rufus Story, Respondent, v. Abraham B. Conger, Appellant 1867-06
Alexander E. Orr v. The City of Brooklyn 1867-06
Louisa Nash, Appellant, v. The People of the State of New York, Respondents 1867-06
Joseph B. Vandevoort v. Edward S. Gould 1867-06
John Owen and George F. Bellows, Respondents, v. Jane F. Cawley, impleaded, etc., Appellant 1867-06
The Union Bank, etc., Appellant, v. Abial P. Bush, and others, Respondents 1867-06
Ezra P. Davis, Receiver, etc., Appellant, v. Francis Morris et al., Respondents 1867-06
Beardsley Scythe Company, Appellant, v. John C. Foster, Respondent 1867-06
Cazet and Astoin v. Hubbell and others; Putnam and others v. Medbury and others; Hamilton v. Same; Sawyer v. Hubbell and others 1867-06
Samuel Pindar, Assignee, etc., Respondent, v. The Kings County Fire Insurance Company, Appellants 1867-06
In re John Percy 1867-06
Laban Jacobs, Respondent, v. George Remsen, Sheriff, etc., Appellant 1867-06
Platt Potter, Administrator, etc., Respondent, v. William Van Vranken and another, Appellants 1867-06
Edmund Savage v. The Corn Exchange Fire and Inland Insurance Company 1867-06
Francis Morris, Appellant, v. Margaret A. Ward, Respondent 1867-06
Jacob Stover et al., Appellants, v. Jacob C. Eycleshimer, John B. Sherman et al., Respondents 1867-09
Franklin B. Seacord, Respondent, v. Caleb Morgan and John Warrin, Appellants 1867-09
William Barker, Appellant, v. William White et al., Respondents 1867-09
Horatio N. Curtis, Appellant, v. Simon Butts, Respondent 1867-09
Catharine Jenkins, Administratrix, etc., Appellant, v. David E. Wheeler, Respondent 1867-09
Catharine A. Jenkins, Administratrix, etc., Respondent, v. David E. Wheeler, Appellant 1867-09
James H. Seguine, Appellant, v. Henry S. Seguine et al., Respondents 1867-09
The People, etc., on the relation of James R. Del Vecchio, Appellant, v. The Board of Supervisors of Kings County, Respondents 1867-09
Garret S. Mott, Appellant, v. The Union Bank of the City of New York, Respondent 1867-09
Alexander Spaulding, Respondent, v. Peter, O. Strang, Assignee, etc., et al., Appellants 1867-09