Moffett v. Jaffe

The plaintiff is the vendee and the defendant the vendor under a written contract for the sale of farm lands in Suffolk county. The contract fixes a price of $4,500 and describes the lands as consisting of two parcels, *585one containing “ twelve acres, be the same more or less,” and the other “ containing about sixteen acres.”

The plaintiff alleges that he bought and the defendant sold under a mutual belief that the two parcels contained together twenty-eight acres. He alleges that, as a matter of fact, the parcels together contain but a small fraction over twenty-four acres and he asks that the…