Case ID: ny_241/html/0564-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Catherine V. Trowbridge, Appellant, v. Katie Oehmsen, Respondent.
    
      Rescission—false representations — real property — action to rescind deed and bond and mortgage and recover purchase money on ground of false representations.
    
    
      Trowbridge v. Oehmsen, 207 App. Div. 740, affirmed.
    (Argued October 22, 1925;
    decided November 24, 1925.)
    Appeal from a judgment, entered May 18, 1924, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, reversing a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term and directing a dismissal of the complaint. The action was to set aside a deed of real property made by defendant to plaintiff, to cancel and set aside a bond and mortgage made by plaintiff to defendant upon such conveyance and to recover the purchase money paid by plaintiff for the property on the ground that defendant had misrepresented the premises to the plaintiff in that she had stated that the house was a new structure, well built, when in fact the greater part of it was an old barn rebuilt.
    
      Benjamin I. Taylor for appellant.
    
      William Baruch for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Hiscock, Ch. J., Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Andrews and Lehman, JJ.. Absent: Crane, J.