Case Name: Joseph Hughes, Respondent, v. Henry Hughes, Appellant
Court: New York Court of Common Pleas
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1895-11
Citations: 14 Misc. 631
Docket Number: 
Parties: Joseph Hughes, Respondent, v. Henry Hughes, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 14
Pages: 631–632

Head Matter:
NEW YORK COMMON PLEAS
ADDITIONAL GENERAL TERM,
NOVEMBER, 1895
Joseph Hughes, Respondent, v. Henry Hughes, Appellant.
Motion on the part pf the respondent for reargument of the appeal.
Action of ejectment. For the opinion accompanymg the reversal of the judgment see 10 Mise. Rep. 180.
• John J. Gleason, for appellant. '/
Edw. W. S. Johnston, for respondent.

Opinion:
Bischoff, J.
We find no reason for ordering a reargument of this appeal.
' The vice of the respondent's position is that .it-assumes that the relation of landlord and tenant was conclusively shown to. have existed between Bridget Barrett, through whom he claims title, and the appellant, or the latter's predecessor in possession, a,nd that, therefore,the appellant was estopped from questioning the respondent's right to possession. It was, however, because the appellant was precluded from showing to the contrary of the inferences which arose from the evidence adduced' for the respondent that the judgment was pronounced erroneous. ,
The respondent was entitled to recovery- only upon proof of his right to possession; not because the appellant's right to possession was not apparent. If the evidence excluded disproved a tenancy under Bridget Barrett it was competent to the appellant .still further, and for the reasons assigned in the opinion upon the decision of the appeal, to disprove the respondent's, claim of seizin by showing that the instruments under which the claim was made offended against the statute which declares all grants of lands held adversely by another void. . '
. The respondent urges, etitio prindvpii, that it. is to be presumed that the person in possession holds Under the owner of the legal title, and that such presumption extends to the successor of . the tenant's possession. " Granted, but the very -evidence excluded at tlie trial was aimed to rebut the presumption. . . '
Motion denied*, with ten dollars costs. - ~
Pbyob, J., concurs. - ' .
Motion denied, with ten dollars costs. . •