Legal Opinion

Baldwin v. Van Vorst

Supreme Court of New Jersey

Decided June 15, 1856PublishedCited by 3 opinions

The bill in this canse was exhibited to foreclose a mortgage, made by Daniel A. Baldwin and Abby Ann his wife, bearing date the first day of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and delivered to John Yan Yorst, the complainant, and set forth in the said bill exhibited in this cause.

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The bill in this canse was exhibited to foreclose a mortgage, made by Daniel A. Baldwin and Abby Ann his wife, bearing date the first day of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and delivered to John Yan Yorst, the complainant, and set forth in the said bill exhibited in this cause. The said mortgage v/as made to him to secure the sum of money mentioned in a bond made by said Daniel A. Baldwin, and delivered to the said John Yan Yorst, the complainant, bearing even date with the said mortgage, which said bond was subject to the following condition: that the said Daniel A. Baldwin, his…

1Opinion of the Court

Williamson, C.

Daniel A. Baldwin, one of the defendants, purchased of the complainant a tract of land, lying *579in Jersey City in the county of Hudson, for the sum of forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars ; seven thousand five hundred dollars were paid in cash, and to secure the balance Baldwin gave his bond, with a mortgage on the premises, in the penal sum of eighty thousand dollars, with the condition, that if the said Daniel A. Baldwin, his heirs, executors, or administrators, should pay to the complainant, his executors, administrators, or assigns, the sum of forty thousand dollars, in…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Wells v. SmithNew York Court of Chancery · 1837
  2. Edgerton v. PeckhamNew York Court of Chancery · 1844
  3. Simson v. KlipsteinNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1917

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Gilbert v. Pennington Trap Rock Co.New Jersey Court of Chancery · 1944
  2. Galka v. Tide Water Associated Oil Co.New Jersey Court of Chancery · 1943
  3. Harld Holding Co. v. LairdNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1927

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