Pollock v. Queens Land & Title Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Queens Land and Title Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Nassau on the 8th day of May, 1911, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 19th day of May, 1911, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The plaintiff purchased certain premises of the defendant, agreeing to construct a house thereon which should be of the value of $5,000. It is conceded that the plaintiff performed his part o'f the contract. The contract between the parties required the defendant to “connect the house with the water system already installed at Massapequa, on or before the completion of the said house, ” and the evidence is undisputed that the defendant has failed to perform this part of the contract, though having put in a temporary pumping plant and supplying a man to *572do the pumping. It is…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Brooklyn Hills Improvement Co. v. New York & Rockaway Beach Railway Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903
- Brooklyn Hills Improvement Co. v. New York & Rockaway Beach Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1904
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