Hollander v. Abrams

This is a bill for specific performance of an agreement for the sale of land. The complainant is the vendee and the defendant the vendor. The sole defense to the bill is that the defendant, at the date of the contract, was a married woman, and that the contract was executed and acknowledged by her alone, without the joinder of her husband. The matter comes before me on motion to strike out the answer and enter decree. While the answer admits most of the facts set out in the bill of complaint, the solicitors of the respective parties have filed a stipulation containing an agreed state of facts…