Regan v. Traube

This is a controversy submitted to the general term for determination upon an agreed state of facts. Bertha Traube has made an agreement in writing to purchase a piece of real estate from Daniel Began, and she refuses to complete, alleging a defect of title. The premises came to the present owner, through several mesne conveyances, from the Hew York Life Insurance Company, which had previously bid in the same at a sale under foreclosure in this court; and two of the defendants, being the owner of the equity of redemption and his wife, were served only by publication. The order for such…