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Joseph A. Barr, Respondent, v. Henry L. Fish, Jr., Survivor, etc., and Maude A. B. Fish, Executrix of Henry L. Fish, Deceased, Appellants, 1898 — 157 N.Y. 703 · caselaw · US
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Joseph A. Barr, Respondent, v. Henry L. Fish, Jr., Survivor, etc., and Maude A. B. Fish, Executrix of Henry L. Fish, Deceased, Appellants
157 N.Y. 703·New York Court of Appeals·1898·NY
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Joseph A. Barr, Respondent, v. Henry L. Fish, Jr., Survivor, etc., and Maude A. B. Fish, Executrix of Henry L. Fish, Deceased, Appellants.
Beported below, 87 Hun, 533.
(Argued November 28, 1898;
decided December 6, 1898.)
Motion to dismiss an appeal, by permission, from a judgment of the late General Term of the Supreme Court in the fifth judicial department, entered July 13, 1895, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict rendered at the Monroe County Court, and affirming an order denying a motion for a new trial.
The motion was made upon the ground that no question of law was involved which could be reviewed by the Court of Appeals.
John A. Collier Wright for motion.
Frederick A. Mmvn opposed.
[MAJORITY]
Motion denied, with costs.