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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Appellate Division / Joined 1940 / Served to 1959

Francis D. McCurn

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Francis D. McCurn was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1940. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1889–1971
Tenure: 1940–1959 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1940	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McCurn authored 55 published opinions for the court (1940–1957), plus 12 dissents. Most cited: Holmes v. County of Erie (32 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 65 of these were attributed to McCurn by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1943	Holmes v. County of Erie†	266 A.D. 220	32
1955	Onondaga County Water Authority v. New York Water Service Corp.· Dissent†	285 A.D. 655	30
1954	Secrist v. Secrist†	284 A.D. 331	27
1942	Town of Ohio v. People†	264 A.D. 220	27
1955	Buduson v. Curtis†	285 A.D. 517	23
1957	Millet v. Slocum	4 A.D.2d 528	17
1955	Tennant v. Farm Bureau Mutual Automobile Insurance†	286 A.D. 117	16
1951	Paglia v. State· Dissent†	278 A.D. 281	15
1944	Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Union Trust Co.†	268 A.D. 474	12
1944	Crellin v. Van Duzer†	267 A.D. 744	11
1954	Eckerson v. Macduff†	284 A.D. 56	10
1955	Van Tassell v. Hill†	285 A.D. 584	9
1954	Corbett v. Zoning Board of Appeals†	283 A.D. 282	9
1954	In re the Estate of Howland†	284 A.D. 306	8
1953	Black River Regulating District v. Adirondack League Club†	282 A.D. 161	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 67 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the New York Appellate Division reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Francis D. McCurn on?: Francis D. McCurn was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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19 years on the New York Appellate Division. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).