Hurlock v. Bader

The Vice-Chancellor:

Respondent has declined to accept a deed of conveyance tendered him by complainants, and has refused to pay the balance of the purchase price of the two lots concerned in the contract of sale between the parties. He justifies his refusal on the asserted ground that complainants are unable to convey the lots to him in fee simple, as called for by the contract. He contends that the deed of Helen J. G. Reilly to complainant Charles S. Hurlock, which is the source of any interest complainants may have in the lots, was ineffectual to vest in Hurlock a fee simple title. Whether…