Barnes v. Howell — 186 N.Y. 550

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Albert J. Barnes, Respondent, v. Eugene B. Howell, as Receiver of Long Island Real Estate Exchange and Investment Company, Appellant, and The People’s Trust Company, Respondent.

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Barnes v. Long Island R. E. Exchange & Inv. Co., 107 App. Div. 623 , affirmed.

(Argued October 8, 1906;

decided October 23, 1906.)

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

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September 6, 1905, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff and the defendant People’s Trust Company entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term in an action to obtain the cancellation of a mortgage alleged to have been paid to the mortgagee without notice of its previous assignment.

Robert H. Wilson for appellant.

I. J£. Warren for plaintiff, respondent.

George W. Wingate for defendant, respondent.

Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concuri Cullen, Ch. J., Edward T. Bartlett, Haight, Vann, Hiscock and Chase, JJ. Absent: Gray, J.