Bloomgarden v. Hoffmann
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Henry Bloomgarden, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 19th day of April, 1906.
1Opinion of the Court
Jerks, J.:
This is an appeal from an order of the Special Term denying a motion to punish the defendants for a contempt in failing to ©bey a judgment and thereby .defeating the rights of the plaintiff to his loss. In 1904 the defendants contracted to sell certain premises to the plaintiff,, who thereafter rejected the title as unmarketable and sued to recover $200 paid on account of his purchase and the incidental-expenses. The defendants joined issue, with the pleas of denial of the unmarketability and of “a separate and distinct defense and counterclaim ” that the plaintiff refused title…
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