New York Court of Appeals, 1898

162 opinions

Louis H. Allen, Respondent, v. John C. Matthai et al., Appellants 1898-05-10
Julia M. Phyfe, as Executrix and Trustee under the Will of James D. Phyfe, Deceased, et al., Respondents, v. The Metropolitan Elevated Railway Company et al., Appellants 1898-05-10
Libbie Spannocchia, Appellant, v. Frederick W. Loew et al., as Executors and Trustees under Will of Jacob Vanderpoel, Deceased, et al., Respondents 1898-05-10
Stephen D. Arents, Respondent, v. The Long Island Railroad Company, Appellant 1898-05-10
Eugene Clifford Potter, Appellant, v. Charles H. T. Collis, as Commissioner of Public Works of the City of New York; The Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York, Appellant; The Eighth Avenue Railroad Company and the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, Respondents 1898-05-10
The People of the State of New York ex rel. John L. Feeny, Appellant, v. The Board of Canvassers of Richmond County and George Cromwell, Respondent; The People of the State of New York ex rel. George Cromwell, Respondent, v. The Board of Canvassers of Richmond County and John L. Feeny, Appellant 1898-05-10
Charles F. Huie, Respondent, v. Henry Allen et al., Appellants 1898-05-10
Herman F. Inderlied et al., Appellants, v. Nicholas Whaley et al., Respondents 1898-05-10
Xavier Stierle, Appellant, v. The Union Railway Company of New York City, Respondent 1898-05-10
Susanne L. Ehmer, Respondent, v. Title Guarantee and Trust Company, Appellant 1898-05-10
Annie C. Pell et al., Respondents, v. The Manhattan Railway Company et al., Appellants, et al. 1898-05-10
The People of the State of New York ex rel. The Forest Commission, Appellant, v. Frank Campbell, Comptroller of the State of New York, Respondent; The Same v. The Same 1898-05-10
National Park Bank of New York, Appellant and Respondent, v. Warren N. Goddard et al., Respondents and Appellants 1898-05-10
Margaretha Eckhardt, Respondent, v. The City of Buffalo, Appellant 1898-05-10
John OLoughlin, Respondent, v. New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, Appellant 1898-05-13
William E. D. Stokes, Respondent, v. Edward S. Stokes, Appellant 1898-05-13
Walter S. McAllaster, Respondent, v. Niagara Fire Insurance Company, Appellant 1898-05-13
Marco Lucco, Respondent, v. New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, Appellant 1898-05-13
David Link, Appellant, v. William Moore, Respondent 1898-05-13
Sarah Lawson, Respondent, v. William Eggleston, Appellant 1898-05-13
In the Matter of the General Assignment of Alfrederick S. Hatch and Frederick H. Hatch, Individually, and as Copartners, Composing the Firm of A. S. Hatch & Co. In the Matter of the Claim of Collis P. Huntington, Appellant; Horace H. Chittenden, Assignee, Respondent 1898-05-13
Peter Higgins, Respondent, v. The Western Union Telegraph Company, Appellant 1898-05-13
Sarah C. Douglass et al., as Executors of George L. Cornell, Deceased, Respondents, v. William B. Halsted et al., Appellants 1898-06-06
Mary S. Brooks, Respondent, v. Rochester Railway Company, Appellant 1898-06-07
Adelbert P. Little, Respondent, v. The City of Rochester et al., Appellants 1898-06-07
Amelia Sieburg, Respondent, v. Massachusetts Benefit Life Association, Appellant 1898-06-07
William R. Hearst, Appellant, v. John L. Shea, Commissioner of Bridges of the City of New York, The Municipal Assembly of the City of New York, and William Berri and Others, Constituting the Trustees of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, Respondents 1898-06-07
Daniel Schout, Jr., Appellant, v. The Conkey Avenue Saving, Aid and Loan Association, Respondent 1898-06-07
People of the State of New York ex rel. Daniel W. Powers, Respondent, v. Edwin A. Kalbfleisch et al., as Assessors of the City of Rochester, Appellants 1898-06-07
Rochester Printing Company, Appellant, v. Margaret A. Marion, James Marion, John F. Kinney, as Assignee of Margaret A. Marion and James Marion for the Benefit of Creditors, and Patrick Fahy, Respondents; William D. Clark, Appellant, v. The Same, Respondents 1898-06-07
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Justus Knatt, Appellant 1898-06-07
Edward H. Van Ingen, Respondent, v. The Mail and Express Publishing Company, Appellant 1898-06-07
In the Matter of the Application of The Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York, Appellant, Relative to Acquiring Title to East One Hundred and Sixty-eighth Street; James A. Deering et al., Respondents 1898-06-07
The Trustees of the Village of Canandaigua, Respondent, v. William L. Foster, Appellant 1898-06-07
Christopher Malloy, Respondent, v. The New York Real Estate Association, Appellant, Impleaded with Nathan T. Porter et al. 1898-06-07
Frederick P. Forster, Respondent, v. Charles E. Moore et al., Appellants 1898-06-07
Charles I. Berg, Respondent, v. Henry Parsons, Appellant 1898-06-07
The First National Bank of the City of Brooklyn, Respondent, v. William T. Wallis et al., Appellants 1898-06-07
Harry Sneck, Respondent, v. Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, Appellant 1898-06-07
The People of the State of New York, Appellant, v. John F. Dorthy, Respondent 1898-06-07
Lydia Cole, Appellant, v. Kate C. Brown et al., Respondents 1898-06-07
Abraham Denike, Respondent, v. Mary A. Denike, Impleaded, etc., Appellant 1898-06-07
Mary E. Johnson, Appellant, v. James Brasington et al., Respondents 1898-06-07
Ricka Zorkowski, Appellant, v. William Waldorf Astor, Respondent 1898-06-07
The Village of Fort Edward, Respondent, v. Wilbur F. Fish, Appellant 1898-06-07
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. John M. Fitzgerald, Appellant 1898-06-07
Michael B. Kenney, Appellant, v. The Second Avenue Railroad Company, Respondent 1898-06-07
The People of the State of New York ex rel. Adam Shuster, Appellant, v. William A. Humphrey et al., Commissioners of Police of the City of Poughkeepsie, Respondents 1898-06-07
Christian Anderson, Respondent, v. Charles H. Boyer et al., Appellants 1898-06-07
Nathan Corwith, Jr., et al., Appellants, v. Frederick M. Stetler et al., Respondents 1898-06-07
Henry H. Craig et al., Respondents, v. Frank J. Butler, Appellant 1898-06-07
John S. Mabon, as Receiver of The Ongley Electric Company, Respondent, v. The Ongley Electric Company, Appellant 1898-06-07
The Immaculate Conception Church, Appellant, v. Charles E. Sheffer, Respondent 1898-06-07
The Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of the Church of the Holy Apostles in the City of New York, Respondents, v. The New York Elevated Railroad Company et al., Appellants 1898-06-07
Millicent U. Wiss, Respondent, v. Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway Company, Appellant 1898-06-07
John ODonnell, Respondent, v. East River Gas Company, Appellant 1898-06-07
Sarah Strong Jones, Respondent, v. The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, Appellant 1898-06-07
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Frank N. Sheldon, Appellant 1898-06-07
The People of the State of New York ex rel. Michael Broderick, Respondent, v. Levi P. Morton, Charles T. Saxton and Hamilton Fish, Trustees of Public Buildings, and Frederick P. Easton, Superintendent of Public Buildings, Appellants 1898-06-07
John R. Drake, Appellant, v. The New York Iron Mine et al., Respondents 1898-06-07
Catharine J. Brown, Respondent, v. The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, Appellant 1898-06-07
Grace G. Ayers, Respondent, v. Rochester Railway Company, Appellant 1898-06-07
Maria Ten Eyck and Cornelius H. Slingerland, Respondents, v. Catharine A. Whitbeck Miner Beller and Edward Jaycox, Appellants 1898-06-07
James Blass and Anna B. Fuller, as Executrix of John W. Fuller, Deceased, Respondents, v. Georgianna B. S. Terry, Appellant 1898-06-07
William H. Burroughs, Appellant, v. The Tradesmens National Bank of the City of New York, Respondent 1898-06-07
Elwin S. Piper, Respondent, v. The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, Appellant 1898-06-07
Josephine Antoinette Cambreleng, Respondent, v. Ella Ward Graham, Appellant, Impleaded with Douglas Graham et al., Respondents 1898-06-07
The County of Rensselaer, Respondent, v. The National Bank of Troy, Appellant 1898-06-07
Ann E. Maytham, Respondent, v. The Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, Appellant 1898-06-07
Emma F. Nelson, Respondent, v. The Village of Oneida, Appellant 1898-06-07
John T. Williams, Respondent, v. Calvin Dater, Appellant 1898-06-07
David Sandman, Respondent, v. Horace Seaman et al., Appellants 1898-06-07
Anna B. Neal, Respondent, v. The City of Rochester, Appellant 1898-06-07
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Martin Thorn, Appellant 1898-06-07
Belle C. Schenck, Respondent, v. William D. Barnes, Appellant, Impleaded with Henry W. Taft, Trustee 1898-06-07
John B. Hamilton, as Administrator of James J. Quinn, Deceased, Appellant, v. The Royal Insurance Company of Liverpool, England, Respondent 1898-06-07
James S. Glenn, Respondent, v. Charles Rossler, Appellant, Impleaded with Richard R. Ditzel 1898-06-07
Emeline Lee, Appellant, v. Mary A. Timken, Respondent 1898-06-13
John T. Williams, Respondent, v. Calvin Dater, Appellant 1898-06-14
Leila O. Henriques et al., Appellants, v. John W. Sterling et al., Respondents 1898-06-14
Louis H. Allen, Respondent, v. John C. Matthai et al., Appellants 1898-06-14
The Central National Bank of Boston et al., Appellants, v. Aaron R. Stevens et al., Respondents 1898-06-14
Laura M. Buck, Appellant, v. The Village of Glens Falls, Respondent 1898-06-14
Ellen J. Coxhead, Respondent, v. Albert L. Johnson et al., Appellants 1898-06-14
Margaret B. Edson, as Executrix of Marmont B. Edson, Deceased, Appellant, v. John E. Parsons et al., as Executors of the Will of Mary A. Edson, Deceased, and Individually, et al., Respondents, Impleaded with Jarvis B. Edson 1898-06-14
Xavier Stierle, Appellant, v. The Union Railway Company of New York City, Respondent 1898-06-14
Ann McCarran, Appellant, v. Mary Ellen McKenna et al., Respondents 1898-06-14
Catherine Heath et al., as Executors of George H. Heath, Deceased, Appellants, v. New York Building Loan Banking Company, Respondent 1898-06-14
Samuel L. White, Respondent, v. Peter H. McNulty, Appellant 1898-06-14
Frederick Sturz, Appellant, v. Frederick S. Fischer, Respondent 1898-06-14
Michael Lennon, Respondent, v. Mary F. C. Smith, Impleaded, etc., Appellant 1898-06-14
Abbie E. Snelling, Respondent, v. Andrew B. Yetter, Appellant 1898-06-14
The People of the State of New York ex rel. John L. Feeney, Appellant, v. The Board of Canvassers of Richmond County and George Cromwell, Respondent; The People of the State of New York ex rel. George Cromwell, Respondent, v. The Board of Canvassers of Richmond County and John L. Feeney, Appellant 1898-06-14
William Dehon King et al., Respondents, v. Eugenia A. Webster Ross, Appellant 1898-06-14
Edward J. Wessels, Respondent, v. Alfred Carr, Appellant 1898-06-14
Alfred Gutwillig, Plaintiff, v. Morris Wiederman et al., Appellants; William H. Schmohl et al., Respondents 1898-06-21
Mary Paget et al., as Trustees, Respondents and Appellants, v. Ellen S. Melcher et al., Appellants and Respondents 1898-06-21
In the Matter of the Petition of Frank Place, Respondent, for an Order Revoking Liquor Tax Certificate of Frank Matty, Appellant 1898-06-21
The People of the State of New York ex rel. James J. Rooney, Respondent, v. John Lawler et al., Constituting the Board of Police Commissioners of Long Island City, Appellants 1898-06-21
The People of the State of New York ex rel. Daniel F. Keeffe, Appellant, v. Town Auditors of the Town of Queensbury, Respondents 1898-06-21
The People of the State of New York ex rel. The New England Loan and Trust Company, Appellant, v. James A. Roberts, as Comptroller of the State of New York, Respondent 1898-06-21
James W. Fox et al., Appellants, v. Franz O. Matthiessen, Respondent 1898-06-21
The People of the State of New York ex rel. Edward Sprague, as Administrator of David H. Journeay, Deceased, Respondent, v. Thomas W. Fitzgerald, District Attorney, Defendant; Mary L. Engelbrecht, Appellant 1898-06-21
The People of the State of New York ex rel. Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Company, Appellant, v. James A. Roberts, as Comptroller of the State of New York, Respondent 1898-06-21
In the Matter of the Application of the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York, Respondent, for the Appointment of Commissioners of Appraisal under Chapter 114, Laws of 1892, Relating to Fort Washington Ridge Road; Catherine F. Ryer et al., Appellants 1898-06-21
The People of the State of New York, Appellant, v. Walter K. Freeman, Respondent 1898-06-24
David Sandman, Respondent, v. Horace Seaman et al., Appellants 1898-06-24
John R. Drake, Appellant, v. The New York Iron Mine et al., Respondents 1898-06-24
Alexander Gilbert et al., as Executors of William R. Clarkson, Deceased, Respondents, v. Charles J. Warren et al., Appellants 1898-06-24
In the Matter of the Probate of the Last Will and Testament of Maurits F. H. de Haas, Deceased. Alice P. T. de Haas, Appellant, v. Maurits F. H. de Haas et al., Respondents 1898-06-24
George W. Gallinger, Respondent, v. Oscar Hammerstein, Appellant 1898-06-24
George Keister, Respondent, v. William Rankin, Appellant 1898-06-24
The People of the State of New York ex rel. Edwin G. S. Miller, Appellant, v. Henry H. Lyman, as State Commissioner of Excise of the State of New York, Respondent 1898-06-24
Anchor Brewing Company, Appellant, v. The Village of Dobbs Ferry, Respondent 1898-06-24
The People of the State of New York ex rel. The Western Union Telegraph Company, Appellant, v. James A. Roberts, as Comptroller of the State of New York, Respondent 1898-06-24
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Angelo Carbone, Appellant 1898-06-24
The People of the State of New York ex rel. Patrick McElroy, Appellant, v. Theodore Roosevelt et al., Composing the Board of Police of the Police Department of the City of New York, Respondents 1898-06-24
The People of the State of New York ex rel. William T. Somerville, Appellant, v. Theodore Roosevelt et al., Composing the Board of Police of the Police Department of the City of New York, Respondents 1898-06-24
Mary E. Schoen, Appellant, v. Albert Wagner, Respondent 1898-06-24
The People of the State of New York ex rel. Samuel J. Luckings, Appellant, v. The Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York, and Ashley W. Cole et al., as Railroad Commisssioners of the State of New York, Respondents 1898-06-24
The People of the State of New York ex rel. William H. Quinn, Appellant, v. Thomas L. Feitner et al., Constituting the Board of Taxes and Assessments of the City of New York, Respondents 1898-06-24
Ellen Banzer, Appellant, v. Adam Banzer et al., Respondents 1898-10-04
Lillie Kleng, Appellant, v. The City of Buffalo, Respondent 1898-10-04
Edward B. Moore, Respondent, v. Isaac A. Cooley, Appellant 1898-10-04
Nathan G. Douglas and James S. Kissane, Appellants, v. Daniel S. Coonley and Sophronia C. Smith, Respondents 1898-10-04
The First National Bank of Paterson, New Jersey, Appellant, v. The National Broadway Bank in the City of New York and Seth M. Tuttle, as Alleged Trustee, etc., Respondents 1898-10-04
Richard E. Townsend, Respondent, v. Edward G. Felthousen, Appellant 1898-10-04
The Town of Fort Covington, Respondent, v. The United States and Canada Railroad Company et al., Appellants 1898-10-04
Townsend Cox et al., Appellants, v. Edward S. Stokes et al., Respondents 1898-10-04
Terence F. Wynne, Respondent, v. The Atlantic Avenue Railroad Company of Brooklyn, Appellant, et al. 1898-10-04
John Wells, Respondent, v. Rial Tolman, Appellant 1898-10-04
William H. Thomas, Appellant, v. William B. Gage, Respondent 1898-10-04
Eugenia Stowers, Respondent, v. Thomas Gilbert, Appellant 1898-10-04
The People of the State of New York ex rel. The United Verde Copper Company, Appellant, v. James A. Roberts, as Comptroller of the State of New York, Respondent 1898-10-04
The People of the State of New York, Appellant, v. Frank H. Wilmarth, Respondent 1898-10-04
Lizzie Briel, Respondent, v. The City of Buffalo, Appellant 1898-10-04
Frank B. Chapman, Appellant, v. Patrick Lynch, Respondent 1898-10-04
Binghamton Opera House Company, Appellant, v. City of Binghamton, Respondent 1898-10-04
Alfred W. Barrows, Respondent, v. The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, Appellant 1898-10-04
Stillman B. Walker et al., Appellants, v. The Phœnix Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn., Respondent 1898-10-04
Reuben H. Coatsworth, Respondent, v. The Lehigh Valley Railway Company and The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company of Pennsylvania, Appellants 1898-10-04
William Brown and Lawrence Brown, Respondents, v. Lodema M. Crabb, Appellant 1898-10-04
The People of the State of New York ex rel. Caleb W. Mitchell, Appellant, v. Charles H. Sturges, Respondent 1898-10-04
The People of the State of New York ex rel. Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Brooklyn, Respondent, v. The Board of Assessors of the City of Brooklyn, Appellant 1898-10-04
Max Blaschko, Respondent, v. Frederick W. Wurster, Mayor of the City of Brooklyn, Respondent; Martin F. Conly et al., Aldermen, etc.; East River and Atlantic Ocean Railroad Company, Appellant 1898-10-04
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company, Appellant, v. Union-Trust Company of New York, Respondent, Impleaded with the Central Trust Company of New York 1898-10-04
The People of the State of New York ex rel. The New York and New Jersey Telephone Company, Respondent and Appellant, v. Barzillai G. Neff et al., Constituting the Board of Assessors of the City of Brooklyn, Appellants and Respondents 1898-10-04
New York Security and Trust Company, Respondent, v. Saratoga Gas and Electric Light Company et al., Appellants 1898-10-04
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. James Van Tassel, Appellant 1898-10-04
Joseph Loeb et al., Respondents, v. Frank R. Keyes and Cora W. Keyes, Appellants 1898-10-04
The People of the State of New York ex rel. The City of Buffalo, Respondent, v. The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, Appellant 1898-10-04
Arthur M. Dodge et al., Appellants, v. Jessie McKechnie, as Survivor, etc., Impleaded with Others, Respondent 1898-10-04
Buffalo Cement Company, Limited, Appellant, v. Pliny B. McNaughton, Impleaded, etc., et al., Respondents 1898-10-04
Hannah Conabeer, Appellant, v. The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company and The New York and Harlem Railroad Company, Respondents 1898-10-04
William Hollingsworth, Respondent, v. The Long Island Railroad Company, Appellant 1898-10-04
In the Matter of the Appraisal for Taxation, under the Act in Relation to Taxable Transfers of Property, of the Estate of Jay Gould, Deceased. George J. Gould et al., as Executors and Trustees, Respondents and Appellants; The Comptroller of the State of New York et al., Appellants and Respondents 1898-10-04
Helen E. Porter, Respondent, v. Alden S. Swan, Appellant 1898-10-04
Leopold Zimmermann, as Surviving Partner of the Firm of Zimmermann & Forshay, Appellant, v. Elias Heil, Respondent 1898-10-04
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Livingston Sickles, Appellant 1898-10-04
John Sutherland, Appellant, v. The City of Brooklyn, Impleaded with Others, Respondent 1898-10-04
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. The Grand Lodge of the Empire Order of Mutual Aid of the State of New York, Respondent, and Jane Draper, Claimant, Appellant 1898-10-04
Caroline B. Powers, as Administratrix, etc., Appellant, v. Francis W. Savin et al., Respondents 1898-10-27