Herring v. Esposito

Bentley, V. C.

This is a bill by a vendor to compel the specific performance of a contract for the sale of a lot of land in the township of North Bergen, with the building thereon erected, for the sum of $14,500. The premises in question is an ordinary city lot twenty-five by one hundred feet, and stands upon a block in which the other lots are of the same dimensions, and all contain private dwelling-houses.

The defence interposed by the answer is that on the lot adjoining to the west there is a building that 'encroaches upon the premises in question to a small extent, with a counterclaim…