Dias v. Glover

The Assistant Vice-Chancellor:

The bill in this cause is filed, to enforce a contract made by the defendant, for the purchase of a lot of land in the city of New-York. The complainants offered the same for sale, under a power in the will of their testator. The lot was struck off to the defendant, a deposite paid, and the usual memorandum of the auctioneer signed. Two leading objections are taken to the title, and upon the ground of these, performance is refused. Edward Meeks, the testator, appears to have been in possession of the premises, from the year 1817. He died in 1823. • His…