Pitt v. . Davison

This is an appeal from an order of the General Term of the Supreme Court reversing an order of the Special Term, which denied defendant's motion to set aside a previous Special Term order adjudging the defendant guilty of a contempt of court, and committing him therefor.

The action was for the specific performance of a contract by which Joseph Davison agreed to convey certain premises to the plaintiffs. Judgment was rendered adjudging the plaintiffs entitled to a specific performance of the contract, and directing this defendant (to whom Joseph Davison had fraudulently, as against the…