Judgment unanimously affirmed, with costs.
Appellants failed to establish any agreement or circumstances from which it could be inferred that the respondent authorized deceased to insert his name in the deed. The principle of implied authority to fill blanks in an instrument does not apply to a deed. (Hulburt v. Walker, 258 N.Y. 8; Chauncey v. Arnold, 24 N.Y. 330, 337.) There was no error in the admission of the record in the summary proceedings in which...
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