Le Page v. Goldstein

This is an action for specific performance or, in the alternative, to impress a vendee’s lien for the amount paid on the purchase price, together with the cost of the examination of title and counsel fees. The chain of title disclosed that the property had been owned by Peter Gorth, who died leaving a will under which his wife, Johanna H. Gorth, and Charles Jerome Cunz were named as executors; that the property was thereafter conveyed by the executors to one Henry Clay Simmons by deed dated July 27, 1918, acknowledged by Charles Jerome Cunz on the day that the deed was dated and by Johanna H.…