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Herman Schiffer et al., Respondents, v. Edward Lauterbach et al., as Executors of Isaias Meyer, Deceased, Appellants
160 N.Y. 663·New York Court of Appeals·1899·NY
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Herman Schiffer et al., Respondents, v. Edward Lauterbach et al., as Executors of Isaias Meyer, Deceased, Appellants.
(Argued October 2, 1899;
decided October 10, 1899.)
Reported below, 38 App. Div. 686.
Motion to dismiss an appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered April 22, 1899, reversing a judgment in favor of defendants entered upon the report of a referee, and granting a new trial.
The motion was made upon the ground that the appeal was not taken within the time allowed by law.
Louis Marshall for motion.
H. B. Closson and Jno. E. Parsons, opposed.
[MAJORITY]
Motion denied, without costs, upon the authority of the case of Guarantee Trust Company v. Philadelphia, Reading & N. E. R. R. Co. (160 N. Y. 1).