New York Court of Chancery, 1835

Woodworth v. Campbell

Woodworth v. Campbell
New York Court of Chancery · Decided October 29, 1835
5 Paige Ch. 518; 1835 N.Y. LEXIS 231; 1835 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 86

Counsel

Murray Hoffman, for the complainant., L. H. Palmer, for the infant defendants.

Woodworth v. Campbell

Opinion of the Court

The Chancellor

decided, that as the parties had a present interest in the rents as tenants in common and were also the owners of the reversion in common, they had a present portable interest in the premises, which would authorize the court to decree a sale in the present suit; but as the lessees were not tenants in common with any of the owners of the rents, or of the reversion, their interests could not be sold; that the sale must be made subject to the rights of such Ies*519sees during the term for which the premises were leased; and that the lessees would thereby become the tenants to the purchaser of the rents and reversion.

Decree accordingly.

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