New York Supreme Court January 5, 1857 (Genter v. Morrison)

By the Court, Pratt, J.

It is very clear from the evidence of the justice who took the acknowledgment, that the conveyance under which the defendant claims title was not attested by a subscribing witness until the time of the first acknowledgment.

The principal question in the case is upon the effect of a deed thus unattested and unacknowledged. The revised statutes (1 R. S.