Ely v. Mathews

This is an application by the plaintiff to compel Robert Walton Goelet to complete a purchase made on sale under foreclosure, at public auction, December 19, 1907, of premises 110-112 West Thirty-ninth street for $135,000. The purchaser on January 6, 1908, the stipulated day for closing title, filed objections to the title, declined to complete and demanded return of the ten per cent, deposit paid and to be reimbursed for his expenditures incident to the purchase and examination of the title. The plaintiff also asks as alternative relief, if the objections of the purchaser are sustained, that…