Case Name: SULLIVAN v. QUINN
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1912-03-06
Citations: 133 N.Y.S. 928
Docket Number: 
Parties: SULLIVAN v. QUINN.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 133
Pages: 928–931

Head Matter:
SULLIVAN v. QUINN.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department.
March 6, 1912.)
Contracts (§ 252 )—Rescission—Agreement to Rescind—Construction.
Parties conveyed both real and personal property in consideration of a note and a mortgage on the real property for the full purchase price. Possession of part of the personal property was to be retained until a certain time, and before such time arrived the grantors died. An agreement was made and executed between their heirs and the grantee, under which the grantee deedéd the real property to the heirs and received back his note and mortgage. Held, that such agreement was in substance a rescission of the contract, so far as it remained unexecuted, and surrendered title to all the personal property not yet delivered.
[Ed. Note.—Eor other cases, see Contracts, Cent. Dig. § 1145; Dec. Dig. § 252.*]
Betts, J., dissenting.
Appeal from Judgment on Report of Referee.
Action by Robert E. Sullivan against George J. Quinn. From judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
Reversed, and new trial granted.
Argued before SMITH, P. J., and KELLOGG, HOUGHTON, BETTS, and LYON, JJ.
Howard R. Sturtevant, for appellant.
Arthur T. Johnson, for respondent.
For other cases see same topic & § number in Dec. & Am. Digs. 1907 to date. & Rep’r Indexes

Opinion:
JOHN M. KELLOGG, J.
Judgment reversed, upon the ground that the agreement by which the property was deeded back was in substance a rescission of the contract, so far as it remained unexecuted, and carried with it a surrender of the title of the personal property, not already taken into possession. Referee discharged, and new trial granted, with costs to appellant to abide event. All concur, except