Pooler v. Sammet

This is an action brought by the vendor to enforce specific performance on the part of the vendee *470of a contract of sale of certain land in One Hundred and Fourteenth street, near Madison avenue, in the borough of Manhattan, Hew York city. The ■ defendant contends that the plaintiff has not good title to a triangular gore of the premises referred to in the sale. This gore comprises that portion of the premises lying in the westerly half of what was known as the Old Harlem road, the use of which as a public thoroughfare was common two centuries ago but was abandoned prior to 1850. The plaintiff…