Case ID: ny-sup-ct_11/html/0414-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Morgan, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

FANNY J. WHEELOCK, Appellant, v. GEORGE M. CUYLER, Respondent.
    
      Evidence—Code, section 399.
    Where in an action of trespass, quarre clausum fregit, defendant claims to have entered as the agent of the owners, the testimony of plaintiff’s grantors as to conversations between them and a person deceased at the time of the trial, through whom defendant’s principal claims, is inadmissible under section 399 of the Code.
    Appeal from a judgment in favor of the defendant, entered upon the report of a referee.
    
      Scott Lord, for the appellant.
    
      James Wood, for the respondent.
   Opinion by

Morgan, J.

Present —Mullin, P. J., Smith and Morgan, JJ.

J udgment' affirmed.