Monahan v. McElligott

This suit is brought for specific performance of an agreement to sell real estate. Sometime prior to April 25th, 1944, the complainants, Patrick Monahan and his wife, Nora, read an advertisement in a newspaper to the effect that the defendants, Gerald A. McElligott and Ellen McElligott, desired to sell their property at 701 Woodland Avenue, Roselle Park, New Jersey. Thereupon several visits were made by the complainants to the home of the defendants and negotiations were opened and discussions had between them as to the price for the property, with the result that the price agreed upon…