New York Court of Common Pleas December 2, 1895 (Constant v. Barrett)

PER CURIAM.

Although the opinion of the general term incidentally deals with the question of the power of the justice of a district court to entertain an equitable defense to a proceeding to recover real estate, under section 2244 of the Code, as amended in 1893, yet that question is not directly brought up by this appeal, *1093because the decision of the court proceeded upon the ground that the