Haughwout & Pomeroy v. Murphy
Supreme Court of New Jersey
One Amidco Boisaubin, on the 24tli day of September, 1863, entered into a contract in writing, with IIaughwout, one of tlio complainants, to soil to him a tract of land situate in the county of Morris, called the Spencer woods, containing twenty-two acres, for §200 per acre, and giving to Haughwout until the 1st day of March, 1864, to accept the proposition. In the latter part of February, 1864, IIaughwout gave Boisaubin notice of his acceptance of tlio proposition.
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One Amidco Boisaubin, on the 24tli day of September, 1863, entered into a contract in writing, with IIaughwout, one of tlio complainants, to soil to him a tract of land situate in the county of Morris, called the Spencer woods, containing twenty-two acres, for §200 per acre, and giving to Haughwout until the 1st day of March, 1864, to accept the proposition. In the latter part of February, 1864, IIaughwout gave Boisaubin notice of his acceptance of tlio proposition. Boisaubin having refused to make conveyance of the property, Haughwout, on the 31st of August, 1865, filed a bill against…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Depue, J.
The bill of complaint filed in this cause, after setting out the proceedings in the suit in chancery between Haughwout and Boisaubin, charges that the deed of conveyance from Boisaubin to Murphy, though bearing date on the 7th of August, 1865, was not actually delivered until the 5th day of October of that year, and after the filing of the bill of complaint by Haughwout against Boisaubin, and after the filing of notice of the pendency of that suit in the clerk’s office- of the county of Morris. It further charges that the *544said Murphy had…
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