Navilio v. Sica

The defendant Carmine Sica agreed to sell to the complainant his apartment house on Grafton avenue, Newark, for a down payment of $250, and, upon the delivery of the deed, $3,750 in cash, $38,800, by assuming a mortgage on the apartment house, and $31,000, by the complainant conveying his property on High street, Newark, free of encumbrance. It was stipulated that "title shall be complete record title and not based upon a sale of the premises for taxes or other municipal liens, nor upon adverse possession." The defendants' title to the apartment house is a tax title. The parties immediately…