Potter v. Boyce
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, E. Clifford Potter, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 6th day of January, 1902, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, J.:
This action was for the specific performance of a contract for the sale of real property by which the plaintiff agreed to sell, and the defendant to purchase, a plot of ground on the southerly side of One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street, 150 feet west of Amsterdam avenue. The defendant claimed that the plaintiff was not able to convey a marketable title, and the court below so decided. There is no dispute as to the facts, the question depending upon whether a deed executed by Jacob Schieffelin and wife and others to Thomas Buckley, dated August 28, 1811, conveyed the westerly…
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