O'Sullivan v. Overton
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit to compel a conveyance of real estate and for damages ; brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County. The court (Fenn, J.,,) sustained a plea in abatement to the complaint, found the facts thereon, and rendered judgment for the defendant. The plaintiff appealed. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBeardsley, J.
In this case the plaintiff seeks to enforce the specific performance of a contract for the sale of real estate, and also to recover damages for the breach of the contract.
At the commencement of the snit the defendant was a resident of the state of New York, and the only service made of the complaint was by sending a copy of it to him in New York, pursuant to an order of notice, and the attachment of certain real estate in Norwalk in this state, a small part of which is the land the title to which the plaintiff claims should be vested in him under the contract set out in the complaint.
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2Cases cited2 opinions
- Nichols v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1834
- Payne v. Farmers & Citizens' BankSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1861
3Cited by18 opinions
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- Wehrhane v. PeytonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1948
- Jacobson v. HendricksSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1910
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