Roseville Bldg., C., Newark v. Klenen

This bill is to compel the defendant to perform her contract to purchase the complainant's land.

The contract provides that the title shall be marketable and,inter alia, that it shall not have been derived from an "adverse or color of title possession." It is agreed that the record title since 1854 is clear and that the record title owners were in possession during their respective ownerships since 1854. To escape performing her contract the defendant searched the title back seventy-nine years to find a flaw and found none. She claims, however, that eighty years ago, one Losey, in whom the…