Bullock v. Adams' Executors
New Jersey Court of Chancery
This suit was brought by Maria Bullock, wife of Smith W. Bullock, through her next friend, to compel the specific performance of a contract for the conveyance of land.
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This suit was brought by Maria Bullock, wife of Smith W. Bullock, through her next friend, to compel the specific performance of a contract for the conveyance of land. The contract was made by Mary Livingston Adams, wife of tbe defendant, George A. Adams, September 27th, 1864. In November, 1864, Mrs. Adams died, having made and duly executed a will,.authorizing her executors to convey her real estate, ,and appointing the defendants, William F. Lay and George A. Adams, the executors. They made a new contract with Mrs. Bullock, extending the time for performance of her part of the contract of…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The facts of the case, as to which there is little or no dispute, are these: Mary Livingston Adams, through the *370agency of her husband, on the 27th of September, 1864, agreed to sell and convey to the complainant a farm, situate in Union county, known as the Crane farm, for $30,000; of which $500 was to be paid at the time of the contract, $4500 on or before the 1st day of January, 1865, $10,000 on or before the 1st of April, 1865, when a deed was to be given to the complainant, and she was to give a mortgage for $5000, and assume a mortgage for $10,000 then upon the farm. It.…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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