Coudert v. Earl

Pitney, V. C.

The bill is for specific performance by vendor against vendee. It sets out a contract of sale, and also the complainants’ title to the premises agreed to be conveyed. The demurrer is based upon a defect alleged to appear on the face of complainants’ statement of the title.

The complainants, Frederic E. and Charles Coudert, derive their title by a sale and conveyance made by the sheriff of Hudson county to them and their brother, Louis L. Coudert, who has since deceased. The complainants claim that, by their conveyance, the title became Vested in them as joint tenants, and that, on…