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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, 1899 — 158 N.Y. 730 · 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
158 N.Y. 730·New York Court of Appeals·1899·NY
All concur.
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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.
(Submitted March 14, 1899;
decided April 18, 1899.)
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 of the Monroe County Court in favor of plaintiff, entered upon a verdict, and an order denying a motion for a new trial.
Barr v. Fish, 87 Hun, 522, affirmed.
Frederick A. Mann for appellants.
John A. C. Wright for respondent.
[MAJORITY]
Judgment affirmed, with costs, on opinion below.
All concur.