New York City Document From Hertell v. Bogert Real Estate Scandal
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Proclamation of the Inciting Incident of Hertell v. Bogert 1841, an early 19th-Century New York Real Estate Scandal.
New York, 1822, Broadside.
In this document, New York County Surrogate James Campbell certifies that the will of John Dover, a wealthy New York city landowner killed by the Yellow Fever outbreak of 1822, has been dutifully executed by his lawyers Peter Wyckoff and Thomas Van Beuren.
As noted in surviving newspapers and in New York case law, however, Van Beuren held all of Dover’s properties on Broadway in trust, pocketing all rental money for himself, before finally cutting Dover’s family out of the land’s illegal sale. The resulting case Hertell v. Bogert, between one of Dover’s surviving daughters and the purchaser C.L. Bogert, was decided in the family’s favor in 1841.
8x 11″, printed legal form with a large engraving of New York’s state seal and personal information of the deceased, his lawyers, and the New York County Surrogate. Embossed surrogate seal of New York state affixed to upper left corner. Folded in horizontal quarters, some staining along seams. Good condition.
