Doody v. Hollwedel
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, William F. Hollwedel, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 27th day of January, 1897, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Kings County Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Cullen, J.:
This action was brought to compel the specific performance of a contract by which the defendant agreed to purchase from the plaintiff a certain lot of land in the city of Brooklyn. The action "was resisted on the ground that the plaintiff had not a perfect title to the land which he agreed to convey. Twenty-one objections to or defects in the plaintiff’s title are set forth in the answer. The Special Term held the plaintiff’s title good and rendered judgment in his favor.' From that judgment this appeal is taken.
That the character and force of the objections to the plaintiff’s…
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