Davis v. Scharf

This bill is to compel the defendants to perform their agreement to purchase the house and lot 117 Arlington street, Newark. The defendants answer that the title is not marketable.

The complainant Austin (Hunt) Davis acquired title by will of his adoptive father, John Davis. The co-complainant is his wife. By the will the testator devised to his two sons, William and James, each a lot, and to his adopted son Austin another lot, and the remainder of his estate to his wife during widowhood. At her death he devised the homestead to his grandson, John W. Davis, the property here involved to his…