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Robert C. Pruyn, Respondent, v. Edward W. McCreary, as Late Sheriff of the County of Albany, et al., Defendants, and Charles C. Black, as Receiver of the Ecuador Company, Appellant, 1905 — 182 N.Y. 568 · caselaw · US
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Robert C. Pruyn, Respondent, v. Edward W. McCreary, as Late Sheriff of the County of Albany, et al., Defendants, and Charles C. Black, as Receiver of the Ecuador Company, Appellant
182 N.Y. 568·New York Court of Appeals·1905·NY
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Robert C. Pruyn, Respondent, v. Edward W. McCreary, as Late Sheriff of the County of Albany, et al., Defendants, and Charles C. Black, as Receiver of the Ecuador Company, Appellant.
(Argued October 5, 1905;
decided October 24, 1905.)
Pruyn v. McCreary, 105 App. Div. 302, affirmed.
Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered May 12, 1905. which affirmed an interlocutory judgment of Special Term overruling a demurrer to. the complaint.
The following questions were certified :
“ I. Has the Supreme Court jurisdiction of the person of the defendant Charles C. Black, as receiver of the Ecuador Company ?
“ II. Has the Supreme Court jurisdiction of the subject of the action ? ”
Theodore L Frothingham for appellant.
Charles A. Collin and John L. Wells for respondent.
[MAJORITY]
Order affirmed, with costs; questions certified answered in affirmative; no opinion.
Concur; Cullen, Ch J., Gray, Bartlett, Haight, Yann and Werner, JJ. Absent: O’Brien, J.