Case Name: Gertrude Van Cortlandt, Appellant, v. Raouel de Graffenried, Respondent
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1912-02-27
Citations: 204 N.Y. 667
Docket Number: 
Parties: Gertrude Van Cortlandt, Appellant, v. Raouel de Graffenried, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 204
Pages: 667–668

Head Matter:
Gertrude Van Cortlandt, Appellant, v. Raouel de Graffenried, Respondent.
(Argued February 13, 1912;
decided February 27, 1912.)
Van Cortlandt v. de Graffenried, 147 App. Div. 835, affirmed.
Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered December 29, 1911, which reversed an interlocutory judgment of Special Term overruling a demurrer to the complaint and sustained such demurrer in an action to compel a reconveyance of real property.
The following question was certified: “Does the second cause of action, contained in the amended complaint herein, set forth facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action ? ”
Frederic R. Qoudert, Paul Fuller and Howard Thayer Kingsbury for appellant.
Thomas P. de Graffenried for respondent.

Opinion:
Order affirmed, with costs, and question certified • answered in the negative on opinion of Ingraham, P. J., below.
Concur: Cullen, Oh. J., Haight, Willard Bartlett and Hiscock, JJ. Concurs in result in memorandum: Chase, J., with whom Werner, J., concurs. Not voting: Vann, J.