Tompkins v. Morton Trust Co. — 181 N.Y. 578

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Hamilton B. Tompkins, Appellant, v. Morton Trust Company, Defendant, Thomas Hastings, Respondent, and Caroline H. Meeker et al., Appellants, Impleaded with Others.

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Tompkins v. Morton Trust Co., 91 App. Div. 274 , affirmed.

(Argued April 26, 1905;

decided May 30, 1905.)

Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered April

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21, 1904, modifying and affirming as modified a judgment entered upon the report of a referee in an action to ascertain the rights of the parties thereto in certain securities in the possession of the defendant Morton Trust Company.

Frederick H. Mm and Thomas J. Sanson for plaintiff, appellant.

Walter F. Taylor for Caroline H. Meeker, appellant.

Felix Jellenik for Henry Moeller, appellant.

■ Charles F. Brown and Alfred Ely for respondent.

Judgment affirmed, with costs, on opinion below.

Concur: Gray, O’Brien, Bartlett, Haight, Vann and Werner, JJ., and Cullen, Ch. J., in result.

Cases cited

Tompkins v. Morton Trust Co. 91 App. Div. 274 N.Y. App. Div. 1904-02-11 p. 578