New York Court of Appeals, 1897

97 opinions

In the Matter of the Judicial Accounting of Albert Payne et al., as Executors of Silas W. Payne, Deceased, Respondents; Sarah R. Ketcham, Appellant 1897-01-19
The People of the State of New York ex rel. Elihu Lovett, Respondent, v. William A. Randall, Appellant 1897-01-19
Frederick S. Harlow, Appellant, v. Hiram La Brum, Respondent 1897-01-19
In the Matter of the Application of Mary Jane OHare et al., Appellants 1897-01-19
George Mark et al., Respondents, v. The Village of West Troy, Appellant 1897-01-19
Mary E. G. Shaw, Respondent, v. Richard Webber, Appellant 1897-01-19
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Charles Young. Charles Rieger and Elizabeth Rieger, Appellants 1897-01-19
James R. OBeirne, on Behalf of Himself and all Other Bondholders of The Allegheny and Kinzua Railroad Company, Respondent, v. The Allegheny and Kinzua Railroad Company, Appellant, Impleaded with Others 1897-01-19
In the Matter of Objections to the Certificate of Nomination of Ben L. Fairchild for Representative in Congress for the Sixteenth Congressional District. Ben L. Fairchild, Appellant; William L. Ward, Respondent 1897-01-19
The People of the State of New York ex rel. The Blackinton Company, Appellant, v. James A. Roberts, Comptroller of the State of New York, Respondent 1897-01-19
John Kerr, Respondent, v. Atlantic Avenue Railroad Company of Brooklyn, Appellant 1897-01-19
John McInerney, Appellant, v. The President, Managers and Company of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, Respondent 1897-01-19
The Trustees of Amherst College et al., Respondents, v. Thomas G. Ritch et al., Individually and as Trustees and Executors, etc., of Daniel B. Fayerweather, Deceased, et al., Appellants 1897-01-19
Fannie P. Cottle, Administratrix, etc., et al., Appellants, v. William G. Milligan, Administrator, etc., Respondent, Impleaded, etc. 1897-01-19
Frank Flandreau, Respondent, v. Philip Elsworth, Appellant 1897-01-19
The People of the State of New York ex rel. Edward M. Goring, Appellant, v. The President and Board of Trustees of the Village of Wappingers Falls, Respondent 1897-01-19
John J. Kennedy, Respondent, v. The President, Managers and Company of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, Appellant 1897-01-19
Michael OBrien, Appellant, v. Robert J. Smith, Respondent 1897-01-19
John G. Kinkele and William P. Giles, Respondents, v. Emma Giles Wilson, Appellant 1897-01-19
James Danihee, Appellant, v. John Hyatt, Respondent 1897-01-19
Charles W. Gibbs, Appellant, v. The Long Island Bank, Respondent 1897-01-19
The People of the State of New York ex rel. William L. Ward, Appellant, v. Theodore Roosevelt et al., Board of Police Commissioners of the City of New York, Respondents 1897-01-19
Daniel L. G. Frobisher, Respondent, v. Fifth Avenue Transportation Company (Limited), Appellant, Continued in the Name of Daniel T. Hoag, Receiver, etc. 1897-01-19
L. F. W. Arend, Respondent, v. Christopher Smith, Appellant 1897-01-19
In the Matter of the Petition of Edward P. Kain, Respondent, v. Stephen J. Stilwell, Appellant 1897-01-19
James Spears, Respondent, v. Eben Willis, Appellant 1897-01-19
Charles Distler, Appellant, v. The Long Island Railroad Company, Respondent 1897-01-19
In the Matter of the Claim of the County of Oneida, Appellant, v. Myron N. Bartholomew, a Lunatic, Respondent 1897-01-19
William Ottmann and Company (Incorporated) et al., Appellants, v. Marvelle W. Cooper et al., Respondents 1897-01-19
Edward F. Byrne, Respondent, v. The City of Syracuse, Appellant 1897-01-19
Peter Faltisko, Respondent, v. The New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company, Appellant 1897-01-19
Albert Spencer, Respondent, v. Chauncy Kilmer, Appellant 1897-01-19
Jacob Kimmer, as Administrator of William Kimmer, Deceased, v. John Weber et al., Copartners, etc., Appellants 1897-01-19
Dennis C. Feely, Respondent, v. Gilbert E. Jones, as Treasurer of The New York Times, Appellant 1897-01-19
Mary A. Knope, Respondent, v. Joseph Nunn, Appellant 1897-01-19
The Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the Town of East Hampton, Appellant, v. Jeremiah H. Vail et al., Respondents 1897-01-19
The Jewelers League of the City of New York, Plaintiff, v. Ellen B. De Forest, Appellant, and Anna B. De Forest, Respondent 1897-01-19
Peter J. Lally, Appellant, v. Jonas A. Emery, Respondent 1897-01-19
Isaac Bierman et al., Appellants, v. City Mills Company, Respondent 1897-01-19
Daniel Daley, Respondent, v. The Union Dry Dock Company, Appellant 1897-01-19
Lina M. Allen, Respondent, v. Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway Company, Appellant 1897-01-19
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Harry Wilson, Appellant 1897-01-19
In the Matter of the Application of One of the Two Trustees of the Peekamose Fishing Club, a Corporation, etc., for Its Dissolution. John Q. A. Ward, Petitioner, Respondent; Edward N. Whiton and Anthony W. Dimock, Appellants 1897-01-26
Thomas Reilly, Respondent, v. Atlas Iron Construction Company, Appellant 1897-01-26
Defrees Critten et al., Respondents, v. Charles W. Vredenburgh. The Manufacturers Bank of Cohoes, Appellant 1897-01-26
David Aldridge, as Superintendent of the Poor of Oneida County, Respondent, v. Mary Walker, Appellant 1897-01-26
In re Application of James Crooke McLeer 1897-01-26
The People of the State of New York ex rel. John H. Millard et al., Appellants, v. James A. Roberts, as Comptroller of the State of New York, Respondent 1897-01-26
James Farley, Appellant, v. Abraham Picard, Respondent 1897-01-26
The Empire State Savings Bank, Respondent, v. Daniel C. Beard et al., Appellants 1897-01-26
Elise Haussknecht, Respondent, v. Howard M. Smith, Appellant 1897-01-26
Aaron Humes, Respondent, v. Emma H. Proctor, Executrix, etc., of Thomas E. Proctor, Deceased, et al., Appellants 1897-01-26
William McCormick, Appellant, v. The United Life and Accident Insurance Association, Respondent 1897-01-26
Maryanna Huda, as Administratrix, etc., of Valentine Huda, Deceased, Appellant, v. The American Glucose Company, Respondent 1897-01-26
Esther La Flamme, Respondent, v. The City of Albany, Appellant; John La Flamme, Respondent, v. The City of Albany, Appellant 1897-01-26
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Frank C. Conroy, Appellant 1897-01-26
Sophia Quigley, Respondent, v. The City of Rochester, Appellant 1897-01-26
Holland Trust Company, Plaintiff, v. Thomson-Houston Electric Company of New York et al., Defendants. George W. Maslin et al., Individually and as Reorganization Committee, Appellants; James S. Coleman et al., Respondents 1897-01-26
Edward H. Moubray, Appellant, v. William J. Moubray, Respondent 1897-01-26
Paul G. Decker, Respondent, v. John E. OBrien, Appellant 1897-01-26
Henry F. Gillig, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. George C. Treadwell Company, Defendant; Hugh J. Grant, as Receiver of The St. Nicholas Bank, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Same, Defendant 1897-02-02
Harold J. Emmett, Appellant, v. William J. Penoyer, Respondent 1897-02-02
The People of the State of New York, Appellant, v. John E. Salisbury, Respondent 1897-02-02
The People of the State of New York ex rel. James Mitchel, Respondent, v. O. H. La Grange et al., Fire Commissioners, etc., Appellants 1897-02-02
Loren Doing, as Administrator of Robert P. Hare, Deceased, Appellant, v. The New York, Ontario and Western Railway Company, Respondent 1897-02-02
The People of the State of New York ex rel. Bernard Ritzenthaler, as Overseer of the Poor, Respondent, v. Edward F. Higgins, Impleaded, etc., Appellant 1897-02-02
In the Matter of the Application of Daniel De Camp to Lay out a Highway, etc. Edwin B. Weeks et al., Appellants, v. Daniel De Camp, Respondent 1897-02-02
The Holland Trust Company, Respondent, v. James A. Waddell, Appellant 1897-02-09
Roza Herzog, Appellant, v. The New York Elevated Railroad Company et al., Respondents 1897-02-09
Lorenz Reich, Appellant, v. William F. Cochran, Respondent 1897-02-09
The People of the State of New York v. The Saint Nicholas Bank of New York; Hugh J. Grant, Receiver, Appellant. In the Matter of the Claim of Darius O. Mills, Respondent 1897-02-09
La Societe Anonyme De LUnion Des Papeteries, Respondent, v. Samuel M. Marks et al., Appellants 1897-02-09
Cora Imogene Farleigh, Appellant, v. Alfred J. Cadman, Individually and as Executor of Willam H. Cadman, Deceased, Respondent 1897-02-09
The People of the State of New York ex rel. Mary B. O. Dwight, Respondent, v. Benjamin S. Platt et al., Assessors of the Village of Clinton, Appellants 1897-02-09
Delos McCurdy et al., as Executors, etc., of Lewis H. Livingston, Deceased, Appellants, v. The New York Life Insurance and Trust Company et al., Respondents 1897-02-09
Edward P. Bates, Respondent, v. Salt Springs National Bank of Syracuse et al., Appellants, et al., Respondents 1897-02-09
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Arthur Mayhew, Appellant 1897-02-09
Thomas Tinsley, Appellant, v. Louisa A. Jemison, as Executrix of Elbert S. Jemison, Respondent 1897-02-09
Nellie E. Yale, Respondent, v. William R. Curtiss, Appellant 1897-02-09
The Mohawk National Bank of Schenectady, Appellant, v. The Schenectady Bank, Respondent 1897-02-09
Hartwig Herzog et al., Appellants, v. Nathan H. Heyman, Respondent, Impleaded with Max Siesfeld 1897-02-09
Nicholas Espenscheid, as Administrator, etc., and in Person, as Heir-at-Law, etc., Appellant, v. Frederick Espenscheid et al., Respondents 1897-02-09
Charles W. Little, Appellant, v. A. Bleecker Banks, Respondent 1897-02-12
William C. Benfield, Appellant, v. The Vacuum Oil Company, Respondent 1897-02-12
Thomas M. Scully, Appellant, v. The New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company, Respondent 1897-02-12
Eugene Heckman, Respondent, v. The City of Buffalo, Appellant 1897-02-12
The People of the State of New York ex rel. James Brady, Appellant, v. William Brookfield, Commissioner of Public Works, Respondent 1897-02-12
Adrian Vanderveer, Respondent, v. John Suydam, Appellant 1897-02-12
Charles W. Brown, Appellant, v. The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, Respondent 1897-02-12
James Stoddard, Respondent, v. John McAuliffe et al., Appellants 1897-02-12
Frances T. Brown, Respondent, v. Alonzo Blackman, Individually and as Executor of Lester Blackman, Deceased, Appellant 1897-02-12
The People of the State of New York ex rel. Avery D. Andrews, Treasurer of the Board of Police Commissioners, Respondent, v. Ashbel P. Fitch, as Comptroller of the City of New York, Appellant 1897-02-12
The People of the State of New York ex rel. Jacob Simermeyer, Appellant, v. Theodore Roosevelt et al., as Police Commissioners of the City of New York, Respondents 1897-02-12
The Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York, Respondent, v. John Brady et al., Appellants 1897-02-12
George L. Munroe et al., Appellants, v. Priscilla H. Judson, Respondent 1897-02-12
Guiseppe Critelli, as Administrator, etc. of Angelo Orlando, Deceased, Respondent, v. Rodgers & Clement, Appellants 1897-02-12
Thomas Farrell, Respondent, v. John L. Amberg, Substituted in the Place and Stead of The Church of St. Francis of Assisi, Appellant 1897-02-12