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SECOND DEPARTMENT, DECEMBER TERM, 1887.

In the Matter of the Final Settlement of Clara R. Atkinson's Accounts as Administratrix, etc.- Order affirmed, with costs and disburse ments, Opinion by Pratt, J. Josephus N Goodfellow, Respondent, v. Royal L. Wolcott, Appellant.- Order reversed, with costs and disbursements, and motion denied. Opinion by Barnard, P. J.; Pratt, J., not sitting.

Richard Cahill, Plaintiff, v. Patrick Hickey, Defendant. Part of order appealed from affirmed, with costs and disbursements. Opinion by Dykman, J.

Margaret Murphy and another, Respondents, v. Mary Owen and others, Appellants. Order affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements. Opinion by Dykman, J.; Barnard, P. J., not sitting.

Robert J. Smith, as Guardian, Respondent, v. Sigismund B. Wortman, as Executor, etc., Appellant.-Order vacating decree settling executor's accounts of Thomas Smith, deceased, reversed, with costs and disbursements. Opinion by Barnard, P. J.

The Trustees, etc., of the Town of Southampton, Respondent, v. The Mecox Bay Oyster Company, Appellant. - Judgment affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Barnard, P. J.; Pratt, J., dissenting.

Frank Abbott, Respondent, v. The New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company, Appellant.-Judgment affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Barnard, P. J.

George W. Conselyea and others, Appellants, v. Dudley Blanchard and others, Respondents.Judgment affirmed, with costs Opinion by Dykman, J.

Henry G. Atwater, Appellant, v. Margaret G. Spader and another, Respondents. - Judgment affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Dykman, J. Henry A. Blake, Respondent, v. Isabella A. Corbitt, Appellant. Judgment of foreclosure of lien affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Pratt, J.; Dykman, J, not sitting.

Henry A Blake, Appellant, v. Richard Crowley, Respondent, Impleaded, etc.-Judgment dismissing complaint as to Crowley reversed and new trial as to Crowley granted, with leave to plaintiff to discontinue as to Crowley, without costs. Opinion by Pratt, J.; Dykman, J., not sitting.

Eliza W. Parkhurst, Sole Executrix, etc., Respondent, v. Robert H. Berdell and others, Appellants, Impleaded, etc.-Judgment affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Dykman, J. Irving Felter and another. Respondents, v. John Claffy, Appellant.-Judgment and order denying new trial affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Barnard, P. J.

Charles E. McDowell, Respondent, v. The New York and Sea Beach Railway Company, Appellant. - Motion denied, with ten dollars costs. Opinion by Barnard, P. J. George F. Albrecht, Plaintiff, v. Charles E. Davis, Defendant.-Judgraent affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Barnard, P. J. Thomas M. King and others, Respon lents, v. Reon Barnes. Appellant, Impleaded, etc.Judgment modified in accordance with opinion of Judge Pratt; order to be settled by him and otherwise affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Pratt, J.; Barnard, P. J., not sitting. Thomas M. King. Respondent, v. John H. Post, Appellant, Impleaded, etc.-Order affirmed. with costs and disbursements. Opinions by Dykman and Pratt, JJ.; Barnard, P. J., not sitting

Alice Palmer, Respondent, v. Benjamin T. Searing, Appellant, Impleaded, etc. Order overruling demurrer to complaint and judgment thereon affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Barnard, P. J; Pratt, J., not sitting. The Importers and Traders' National Bank of the City of New York and others, Appellants, v. Clarence Perine and others, Respondents.

Judgment affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Pratt, J.; Dykman, J., not sitting.

Emma Sproul v. Franklin Newman, Jr.-Motion for reargument granted, without costs. Opinion by Dykman, J.

Emma Nearpass and others, Appellants, v. Franklin Newman, Jr., Respondent.-Judg ment reversed and new trial granted, costs to abide event. Opinion by Barnard, P. J. Isaac P. Conklin, Respondent, v. Hiram Cooper, Appellant. Judgment modified by striking out sixty dollars from its amount, and modified affirmed, without costs. Opinion by Pratt, J.; Barnard, P. J., not sitting.

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Marian L. Todd, Respondent, v, Annie C. Haeger, Appellant.-Judgment and order denying new trial affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Barnard, P. J.

Oliver Downs, Respondent, v. Maria Wells and another, Appellants. - Judgment and order denying new trial reversed, and new trial granted, costs to abide event. Opinion by Pratt, J.

Jane Corbett, Administratrix, etc., Appellant, v. The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, Respondent. - Judgment and order denying new trial affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Barnard, P. J.

George R. Collyer, Respondent, v. Charles S. Collyer, Administrator, etc., Appellant. Judgment affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Pratt, J.; Dykman, J., not sitting.

Cornelius E. Kene, Executor, etc., Respondent, v. John J. McAdams, Appellant.-Judgment affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Dykman, J.; Barnard, P. J., not sitting.

Luther E. Mansfield, Respondent, v. The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, Appellant.-Judgment affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Barnard, P. J.

Asa W. Parker, Appellant, v. Charles S. Baker, Respondent.-Judgment affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Dykman, J.; Pratt, J., not sitting. Amelia Gall, Respondent, v. Charles F. Gall and others. Appellants.-Judgment and order denying new trial, affirmed with costs. Opinion by Pratt, J.

The Stafford National Bank, Respondent, v. Emma K. Underwood, Appellant.-Judgment affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Earnard, P. J. Joshua C. Sanders, Respondent, v. Nathan Downs, Appellant. Judgment affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Dykman, J.

Cora E. Fiske, Respondent, v. Charles W. Bardeen, Appellant.-Order affirmed, with costs and disbursements. Opinion by Pratt, J.; Barnard, P. J., not sitting.

Empire Hook and Ladder Company, Respondent, v. The Phoenix Insurance Company and others, Appellants. Judgment reversed and new trial granted, costs to abide event. Opinion by Barnard, P. J.

Mary A. Wood, as Administratrix, etc., Respond-
ent, v. Alfred L. Simonson and another, Ex-
ecutor, etc., Appellants. - Order affirmed, with
costs and disbursements. Opimion by Barn-
ard, P. J.
Stephen H. Herrman and another Plaintiffs, v.
The Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island
Railroad Company and others, Defendants.
Order affirmed, with costs and disbursements,
Opinion by Dykman J.; Barnard, P. J., not
sitting.

Elizabeth A. Jenness, Administratrix, etc..
Respondent, v. Andrew J. Constantine, Ap
pellant. Judgment and order affirmed, with
costs. Opinion by Barnard, P. J.
Henry Christie and another, Respondents, v.
Thomas Shankey and others, Appellants.
Judgment affirmed, with costs. Opinion by
Pratt, J; Barnard, P. J., not sitting
John R. Flanagan and another, Appellants v.
James Barker and others, Respondents. —
Judgment aflirmed, with costs. Opinion by
Barnard, P. J., Dykman, J., not sitting.

FIFTH DEPARTMENT, DECEMBER TERM, 1887.

Louisa Weber, Administratrix, etc., Respondent, v. Herbert L. Bridgman and others, Appellants. Judgment reversed, and new trial granted, costs to abide event. Opinion by Barnard, P. J. Selah D. Seaman, Respondent, v. Herman Koehler, Appellant. Judgment and order denying new trial, and order denying new trial for newly discovered evidence afirmed, with costs of both appeals. Opinion by Dykman, J. Mary A. Ross, Appellant, v. John Duffy, Sheriff, etc., Respondent. - Order overruling demurrer to answer and judgment thereon affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Barnard, P. J.; Dykman, J., not sitting.

Ellen Mason, Plaintiff, v. James W. Prendergast, Defendant. Judgment affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Pratt, J.; Dykman, J., not sitting. George R. Bristor, Respondent, v. Stephen H. Burr, and others, Appellants.-Judginent affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Pratt, J.; Barnard, P. J., dissenting.

Constantine W. Benson, Appellant, v. Clara McNamee, Respondent. Judgment and orders reversed, with costs, to abide event. Opinion by Barnard, P. J.

William Emmeleuth, Respondent, v. The Home Benefit Association, Appellant. - Order overruling demurrer to complaint, and judgment thereon, affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Barnard, P. J.; Dykman, J., not sitting. Caroline Traum, Respondent, v. Simon Gun dersheimer, Appellant. -Judgment and order denying new trial affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Dykman, J.

Matter of Application of Charles Gertrum for a mandamus.-Order affirmed with costs and disbursements. Opinion by Pratt, J. John C. Campbell, Sr., Respondent, v. Henry Mandeville and others, Appellants.-Judgment affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Barnard, P. J.; Dykman, J., not sitting.

Eliza Baisley, v. The Rose Brick Company.Motion denied with ten dollars costs. Opinion by Barnard, P. J.

Joseph Sutherland v. Thomas Morris.-Motion denied with ten dollars costs. Opinion by Barnard, P. J.

Margaret Bohom v. The Port Jervis Gas Light Company. Motion denied with ten dollars costs. Õpinion by Barnard, P. J.

The Village of Port Jervis v. Barrett Bridge

Company. Motion denied, with ten dollars costs. Opinion by Barnard, P. J.

The Lehigh Stove and Manufacturing Company, Respondent, v. Edward B. Colby, Appellant. Judgment affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Pratt, J.; Barnard, P. J., dissenting. William Evans, v. The United States Life Insurance Company.-Order reversed with costs and disbursements, and motion denied. Opinion by Barnard, P. J.; Pratt, J., dissenting. Matter of Application of Staten Island Railroad to acquire land.-Order affirmed with costs. Daniel Dolan v. The Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut Railroad.-Judgment affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Cullen, J

Cassius M. Smith v. Elizabeth Smith and others. Judgment reversed and new trial granted, costs to abide event. Opinion by Justices Pratt and Cullen.

Samuel McElroy, Respondent, v. The Brooklyn Underground Railroad Company, Appellant.-Judgment affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Dykman, J.

Louise Zimmerman, as Executrix, etc., and Frederick Kraentler, as Executor, etc., Appellants, v. Emil Dieckerhoff and others, Respondents. Order appealed from reversed, with ten dollars costs to abide event, and appeal from first two orders dismissed, without costs, and without prejudice to pleadings. Opinion by Dykman, J.

James W. Dixon, Respondent, v. Henry W. Dixon, Appellant.-Judgment affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Dykman, J.; Barnard, P. J, not sitting.

John H. Smith, Respondent, v. John Satterlee and others, Appellants. Judgment affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Dykman, J.

Louis Abrams, an Infant, etc, Plaintiff, v. The Van Brunt Street and Erie Basin Railroad Company, Defendant. Order affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements. Opinion by Dykman, J.

William Weaver, Appellant, v. Lewis L. Hutch ins, Respondent.-Judgment affirmed, with costs. Opinion by Dykman, J.; Barnard, P. J., not sitting.

Peter H. McNulty, Respondent, v. Louis J. Hoyt (or Heydt) and Pauline Heydt, Appellants. Judgment aflirmed, with costs. Opinion by Dykman, J., Barnard, P. J., concurred; Pratt, J., not sitting.

*FIFTH DEPARTMENT, DECEMBER TERM, 1887.

Henry Lochte, Appellant, v. Ernst L. Moeschler,
Respondent.-Impleaded with Louis Engel.
August Miller v. Ernst L. Moschler.

Henry Lochte, Appellant, v. Ernst L. Moeschler
and others, Respondents. -Order in each case
affirmed, with ten dollars costs in one case and
disbursements in each. Opinion by Barker, J.
Benjamin Gould, Appellant, v. The Cayuga
County National Bank of Auburn, and Nelson
Beardsley, Respondents.-Order affirmed, with
ten dollars costs and disbursements.
Samuel Johnston, Appellant, v. Charles D. Young
and others, Respondents -Order affirmed, with
ten dollars costs and disbursements.
In the Matter of the Probate of the Will of Pat-
rocles Blaker, Deceased.-Decree affirmed with
costs to the respondent, payable out of the
estate. Opinion by Bradley, J.
Matilda L. Shimer, Respondent, v. Adam Kin-
der and others, administrators, etc., Appellants.
-Judgment and order reversed and a rehear-
ing ordered before another referee. Costs to
abide event, unless the respondent within
thirty days stipulates to deduct from the re-
covery the sum of $360 in which event the

judgment as so modified is affirmed, without costs of this appeal to either party. Opinion by Barker, J.

James Stewart, Respondent, v. David Lester, Appellant. The case does not appear to have been settled by the trial judge, and is consequently not considered.

Mary I. Gillrie, Respondent, v. The City of Lock-
port, Appellant. Judgment and order affirmed.
Opinion by Smith, P. J.

George H. Stilwell, as Superintendent of the
Poor of Schuyler county, Appellant, v. John T.
Coons, as Overseer of the Poor of the town of
Barrington, Respondent.-Judgment affirmed.
Opinion by Barker, J.

Calvin P. Brown, Respondent, v. John L Spencer
and others, Appellants. Judgment affirmed.
Ernst L. Moeschier, Appellant, v. Henry Lochte
and others, Respondents.-Judgment for costs
in favor of Baetzel reversed without costs, and
the judgment in all other respects affirmed,
with costs of this appeal to the respondents
other than Baetzel. Opinion by Barker, J.
Samuel Sloan and others, Appellants, v. John E.
Gauhn and another, Respondents.-Judgment

* Decisions handed down at an adjourned term held December 30, 1887.
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FIFTH DEPARTMENT, DECEMBER TERM, 1887.

affirmed, without costs of this appeal to either party. Opinion by Haight, J. In the Matter of the judicial settlement of the accounts of Hiram W. Babcock and others as administrators of Thomas Dunn, Jr.- Decree affirmed with costs to the respondents payable out of the estate. Opinion by Bradley, J. Edward H. Avery, Respondent, v. J. Warren Mead, Appellant. Judgment reversed and new trial ordered; costs to abide event. Opin ion by Haight, J.

Aldice G. Warren as Receiver, etc., Appellants, v. Alanson Wilder and others, Respondents.Judgment reversed and new trial ordered with costs to abide event, unless the parties stipulate within thirty days to modify the judgment in accordance with the views expressed in the opinion, in which case the judgment as so modified is affirmed, with costs of appeal to the plaintiff. Opinion by Smith, P. J. Miles B. Riggs and others, Respondents, v. D. Rollo Warner, Appellant.-Judgment affirmed. Opinion by Bradley, J.

The People of the State of New York, Respondents, v. Antonio Minisci, Appellant. Judgment and order affirmed, and proceedings remitted to the Oyer and Terminer of Monroe county. Opinion by Smith, P. J.

The People of the State of New York, Respondents, v. William Sanborn and Willie Sanborn,

Appellants. Judgment and conviction affirmed. Dissenting opinion by Barker, J. Albina Ely, Respondents, v. Polly Padden, Appellant. Judgment aflirmed with costs. Opinion by Smith, P J.

Fritz Wagoner, Respondent, v. Lanson P. Stephens.-Order denying new trial aflirmed. Haight, J., not sitting.

Edward L. Thomas, Plaintiff, v. The Montauk Fire Insurance Company, Defendants.-Motion for new trial granted; costs to abide event. Opinion by Haight, J.

James H. Hughes, Respondent, v. The United Pipe Lines, Appellant.-Judgment afirmed. Opinion by Haight, J.

Charles II. Turner, Appellant, v. George S. Field and others, Respondents.-Order denying new trial affirmed. Opinion by Smith, P. J. George G. Moore, Appellant, v. George W. Batten, Respondent. Judgment and order reversed, and new trial granted; costs to abide event. Opinion by Barker, J.

W. S. Simpson, Appellant, v. Moses A. Shaw, as surviving partner, etc., Respondent.

John Cathcart, Appellant, v. Same, Respondent. First National Bank of Towanda, Appellant, v. Same, Respondent.-Portions of the order appealed from in each case reversed, and the further execution of the plaintiff's judgment stayed for ten days. Opinion by Bradley, J.; Haight, J., not sitting,

INDEX.

ACCIDENT:

See NEGLIGENCE.

ACCOUNTING - Action by a general guardian to recover a legacy under
section 1819 of the Code of Civil Procedure- the complaint need not allege the
facts required to exist to entitle a general guardian to receive a legacy on an
accounting the allegations as to the plaintiff's guardianship in this case
held to be sufficient.

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See WALL v. BULGER..

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Power to open or modify the decree of a Surrogate's Court, entered on a
final accounting by an executor, under section 2481 of the Code of Civil Pro-
cedure, must be exercised with great care.

See MATTER OF O'NEILL...

ACTION-Election of remedies-

after the prosecution to judgment of an
action founded on contract an action for conversion cannot be maintained.

See BOOTS v. FERGUSON..

Relating to municipal corporations.
See MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.

Relating to corporations generally.
See CORPORATIONS.

For foreclosure of mortgages.
See MORTGAGES.

ATTACHMENT.
INJUNCTION.

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500

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ADDITIONAL ALLOWANCES:

See COSTS.

ADMINISTRATORS:

See EXECUTORS AND ADMINISTRATORS.

ADMISSIONS — On cross-examination of a witness questions as to admissions
made by him affecting his credibility should be allowed.

See PEOPLE v. THORNTON..

In pleadings - evidence tending to contradict them is inadmissible — Code

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ALBANY The police commissioners of the city of Albany -sec. 38 of tit.
12 of chap. 77 of 1870, as amended by chapters 298 of 1885, and 443 of 1886
the board has power to establish a veteran grade of patrolmen at a reduced salary.]
Section 38 of the act creating the defendant, the Police Commissioners of the
City of Albany (chap. 77 of 1870, as amended by chapter 298 of 1885, and
chapter 443 of 1886) fixes the salaries of the various officers connected with the
police force, some of them at fixed sums, others at not over the sum respect-
ively specified for each class; the direction as to patrolmen of the police force-

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ALBANY - Continued.

being that each "shall receive an annual salary of not over nine hundred
dollars." At a meeting, held on January 25, 1887, the board passed a resolu-
tion, providing that, upon February 1, 1887, there should be established, for
special day or night duty, a police grade, to be known as the veteran grade,
and, that after ten years' service, by a vote of a majority of the board, any
patrolmen then on the force, or who might thereafter be appointed, might be
assigned to duty on the veteran grade, and should receive a salary of $600
per year.

Held, that while the act did not, in express terms, confer upon the board
power to fix the salaries of patrolmen, the other provision of the act showed
that it did possess the power to do so, and that in the absence of proof of
any abuse in its exercise in this case, the court perceived no objection to this
regulation, either in point of its justice or legality.
PEOPLE EX REL. DECKER v. POLICE COMR'S..

ALIMONY:

See HUSBAND AND WIFE.

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ALLEGATA ET PROBATA-Action to recover upon a specific agreement -
defense that another agreement, specified in the answer, was the one made -a
recovery cannot be had upon an agreement not alleged in the pleadings of either
party, and in conflict with the allegations contained in each.

See SIMMS v. WALLACE..

ALLOWANCES:

172

See COSTS.

ALMANAC — An almanac is admissible as evidence to show the hour at
which the moon rises — judicial notice.

See CASE. PEREW..

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ANIMALS - Liability of one who keeps a vicious dog with knowledge of its
vicious disposition-one who keeps such a dog, although he does not own it, is
liable to a person injured by it.

See KEENAN v. GUTTA PERCHA MFG. CO.....

ANNUITIES Annuity having no time fixed for its payment - when appor
tioned where the annuitant dies between the days of payment.] Benjamin Lord,
by his will, directed his executors to take possession of all his estate, real and
personal, and receive the rents, interests, dividends and income thereof,
and out of the same to keep the real estate in repair and pay the charges
thereon, and keep the personal estate invested, and to call in and reinvest the
same from time to time, and to divide and pay over the net income to be
derived from his store No. 147 Cedar street to Mary Van Vechten, and "out
of the residue and remainder of said net income of my said estate to pay to
Sarah Louisa Reed, wife of David L. Reed, of the city of New York, it being
my intention henceforth, as a daughter, to adopt her, the sum of $2,000 a
year during her natural life, on her sole and separate receipt, the same as if
she was a femme sole, free from the control, interference or debts of her present
or future husband." The annuity was paid to her until the 5th day of July,
1885, and she died on June 7, 1886.

It appeared that the said Benjamin Lord died seized of a store, known as
No. 423 Broadway, which yielded an annual income of $4,750, and that the
personal property affected by this provision of the will was about $10,000.

Held, that as no time was fixed for the payment of the annuity, and as the
rent of the store, in the absence of any statement to the contrary, would be
presumed to be payable quarterly, the annuitant would be entitled to call for
payment, at least at the expiration of every three months, and that the
plaintiff, as her administratrix, was entitled to recover three-fourths of the
annuity, with interest thereon from the time the last quarterly payment could,
under this construction of the will, have been demanded.

The decisions holding that an annuity, payable at a specified time, is not
apportionable, held not to be applicable to this case, where no time for its
payment was stated. REED . CRUIKSHANK....

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