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General
S. Hobart Dorr, Respondent, v. August Beck, as Sheriff, etc., et al., Appellants
149 N.Y. 581·New York Court of Appeals·1896·NY
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Opinion
S. Hobart Dorr, Respondent, v. August Beck, as Sheriff, etc., et al., Appellants.
Dorr v. Beck, 76 Hun, 540, affirmed.
(Argued April 13, 1896;
decided April 28, 1896.)
Appeal from judgment of the General" Term of the Supreme Court in the fifth judicial department, entered upon an order made April 12, 1894, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered uuon the report of a referee.
D. N. McNaughton and F. M. Inglehart for appellants.
John F. Patterson and William J. Creamer for respondent.
[MAJORITY]
Judgment affirmed, with costs, on opinion below.
All concur, except Haight, J., not sitting.