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•Pte RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 18, 1922 
Disputed Sale oi Farm 
I bought a farm, paying $500 down, 
May 14 last' I was to pay the remainder 
of the money before June 11. Before 
June 14 came 1 backed out and would not 
complete purchase, so I lost the $500 I 
got a bonded deed drawn up on the place, 
to pay this money before June 14. The 
real estate agent got a lawyer to see 
what he could do. Me says the lawyer 
told him to sell the farm for less money 
and make me pay the difference. The 
farmer sold if lust week. 1 went to see 
him. I thought he might go halves with 
me. hut he declined, lie sold the farm 
himsi If, not the real estate agent, and he 
sold it for $1,000 less than what I was 
going to give him for it. Now the real 
i state agent wants to collect commission 
on the sale he made to me. w. J. S. 
Of course we have no idea as to what 
nind of a contract was drawn when you 
paid the $500. From the facts given by 
.\ou we are unable to see any privity be¬ 
tween you and the real estate agent, and 
if there is no privity between you and 
:he real estate agent, either expressed or 
implied, no actlou would lie, by the agent, 
against you. Probably the agents’ con¬ 
tract was so drawn that he earned his 
commission when a contract of sale was 
entered into. Probably tile vendor could 
have brought action to compel you to car¬ 
ry out your agreement. N. T. 
ions 
Smashes Prices on 
cannot pay them? Before I came here I 
lived in Montana; I did not harvest a 
crop for four years, and the result is 
some judgments against me, and I am 
figuring to get a farm here on a joint 
deed with my father. c. k. 
New York, 
Creditors can attack any interest you 
may have in real or personal property in 
order to get their pay. In the ease of 
real property owned by you and another 
they could sell your interest in the prop¬ 
erty. If this were not so there would bo 
very few judgments collected, and no one 
would be safe to give credit to another. 
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Farm Legislation at Albany 
Among many bills introduced at Albany 
of special interest to farmers are the 
following: 
1. Legislation has been introduced 
which aims to relieve sportsmen of the 
necessity of wearing a license button. I 
am told this is an economy measure. 
Such sportsmen as I have seen have told 
me that they are opposed to this bill. This 
bill should be defeated, because in some 
cases it would interfere with securing the 
license number from violators. 
2. Bills have been introduced providing 
for a combination hunting, trapping and 
avgliiu ; license—a good measure. 
3. Assemblyman Webb has introduced 
an important hill which provides for the 
revoking of auto licenses from automo¬ 
bile parties who steal farm produce. 
4. Henry M. Brigham has drafted a 
splendid bill which provides for the pun- 
st Hi is Wactm Bex Spre.icier 
<1 here. It will absolutely handle 
our manure ns good, many of our 
era aav better, than a *1(5 ma- 
On account of drop in labor and 
al r»rices and quantify production, 
able to give you the name price us 
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Wife’s Inheritance From Husband 
I was much interested in article on 
joint deeds and hank accounts. How 
about certificate of deposit that the head 
uf the house lias in the bank in his own 
name? In ease of husband’s doa*h, would 
the wife have any trouble in drawing 
money on tin sp accounts where there are 
shares of stuck owned in common? Does 
this go to the wife in ease of death, or do 
they have to lie divided with the children, 
there being three children h.v his first 
wife and two by second? In ease oF hus¬ 
band's death would wife have te. sell all 
personal property. Including household 
goods, lo settle with children, ■where there 
is no will? ITow long does it take a law¬ 
yer to write a will that will dispose of 
just the personal property where every¬ 
thing would be left to wife during her 
lifetime? We have a joint deed to farm, 
but would like to know about the personal 
property, which amounts to quite a bit. 
A farmer’s wife. 
All the articles of personal property 
you mention would require that an ad¬ 
ministrator be appointed, in case the 
husband died without a will, for they 
would not pass direct to the wife. All 
the properly, after taking out the widow', 
exemptions, would pass to th > children. 
The length of time that a lawyer would 
require to draw a will would depend 
somewhat on the activity of the mind of 
the lawyer and the speed of his secretary. 
You would better have a will drawn up, 
no matter how long it takes the lawyer. 
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F.V.FRANKEL 
. Dept. A-sJt 
*> 3 S 3 Sill Ave. 1 
H Hew York 
IS City 
hill calls for a square Property Rights in Chattel Mortgage the tax collector 
citv and country. A year ago. on April first, my mother The tax collect 
n. i . sold her farm to a city man who claimed days, mail to i 
like \ to be any n w have been on a farm for a few yoaTS notice a staterm 
is session. Some of the at one time, lie had about *3.500 to put due on said pr 
like to press legislation down on a farm costing $12,000. We F‘ aoes which 
HU mil tec of Twenty-one had three fine horses, a pair of purebred 
, . t Du roc-Jersey sows, about 400 well-bred 
ircr.tly wiser heads wi White Leghorn hens and a fine lot of Phannin 
Senator and Assembly- machinery, worth altogether at that time 9 
nil counties knows that easily $2,750. which he insisted on being A right of 
t ™ „ n,jc. allowed to liny. My mother and I much throughout my 
force the issue on this prr . f( , n , ( , (] 8( . ]H * ng th ’ Rtock and tools at a the right of wi 
iso a storm that would puBJic sale. As this buyer would not take could I plow ti 
louse. It is only a few the farm without also being allowed to a good field, nei 
the Levis- buy these, we arranged to sell them to Massaehusett: 
.. ( . Wl i him by taking a chattel mortgage on Tour right t« 
e itself on tin. them. The lawyer who settled up the depends entire! 
will be no effort to re- details of the sale assured me the day the granting the ri 
nance. title was transferred and everything set- gitnge thereof. 
i * 1 , 511 „ • __ , v;-i, tied that the buyer could sell nothing oerihpR Hearlv l 
reak bills is one which without my Inother ’s consent, and if she cemrse v 
•ry stock farmer to keep did consent he would have to turn over 01It r he con sen 
stored bull at the head the money he received to her. Last Sum- g; v „ s th,. grar 
s an attempt to legislate rapr > without notifying my mother, this ncroiW X0 P <an, 
man sold ofT about L>0 of the chickens, ot){l jf ,] 1( , 
the earth. P. and when my mother heard of it and saw | l(Tn traveled f 
- him about it he told her he had already yea's to make 
From Highway used the money. Before he had the hordes (•ould not cluing 
s the owner of a farm « ™ nth ?'*'« ,{ r h!n f and the grantees! I 
in front of his premises? poking, and before M inter one died of instrument will 
/been a shallow ditch in starvation He has done nothing toward sistiin ee. 
out lawn, plenty deep replacing her. lie starved the son 
OfT the water in wet freeze off {, n the past mild ■ 
ie road supervisor came Winter) and of the two fine lit its they 
d under his directions, bor / the first week he was there lie raised ^BTTTTT 
teh the whole length of not one, and finally sold the two sows H j III . 
that by kiting the water tjnu? with rur Consent) for $65 
, h it * would not bother The other t wo horses lie bought of us he 
,v. He tore out n sluice ^ cripnled, and he claims he cannot use 
driveway anil said he them. The machinery he has left nut- 
wn fiorl vivht to have doors, and he raised next to nothing last 
" over the sluice year. In spite of the fact that he claims & 
i si. D. to have no money to make good some of 
these losses, he has bought an autoiuo- Y 
law provides that the tiilo. and lie and another man bought a 
iknt of highways shall tractor, bought, he claims, on credit. Is / 
ep in repair sluices and there some way my mother can he pro- / 
.11 cause the waterways tooted on these losses and depreciation of j 
■ulverts to be kept open, the value of the chattel mortgage? The ttM 
: highway laws provides mortgage comes due April 1 of next year, \ 
and so far tenant has paid the interest on 
commission has power to ko th mortgages. M. ^ **^*^1^ 
r underground crossings New York. 
oviding for sidewalks , ., . , 
subway, but cannot np- If you will read your chattel mortgage jf 
instruction of approaches you will find a clause which provider that JT 
rids of adjacent owners.” if the mortgagee shall any time deem him- | d WjaLv T 4 
•sti.ui that von can build self unsafe that he may proceed to fore 
• this sluice of any size close the chattel mortgage. This does not *f 
r to enable you to use mean that, unscrupulous |iersous can say 
any lawful manner. I they feel unsafe, at any time, and fore- nv"'; 
J what the superintend- Hose, but it is intended fur just the kind 
ting iho water settle in of a case you describe; that is. one where 
t of your house. Tf h.v the mortgagor is allowing property covered ; ’*•&&*'* 
allow the water to stand by the mortgage to depreciate rapidly in v 
muse you do not have to value, and thus lessening the security. 
comes stagnant and lia- Under the circumstances which you name 
•ase. N.T. you would he perfectly justified in fore- 
_ closing the chattel mortgage at any time. {£ X-ii* 
, ._. . * Under the law of New York State a 
tits on Joint Pr p y mortgagor who disposes of mortgaged 
•in on a joint deed with property without the consent of the mort- 
wife, can any judgments gagee is guilty of a crime, and may be 
:-t anything from me if I punished therefor. N.T. mmnammmmmmk 
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