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HONEYMAN v. JACOBS

No. 465.

306 U.S. 539 (1939)

59 S.Ct. 702

83 L.Ed. 972

HONEYMAN v. JACOBS ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 17, 1939.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Robert B. Honeyman submitted for appellant.

Messrs. John J. Bennett, Jr., Attorney General of New York, Henry Epstein, Solicitor General, and John F.X. McGohey and Benjamin Heffner, Assistant Attorneys General, submitted for appellees.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case, coming here on appeal from the state court, presents the question of the validity under the contract clause of the Federal Constitution of § 1083a of the Civil Practice Act of New York (Chapter 794 of the Laws of 1933)1 under which the appellant, a mortgagee of real property, was denied a deficiency judgment in a foreclosure...

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