Armour v. Sound Shore Front Improvement Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Sound Shore Front Improvement Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 24th day of February, 1912, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 21st day of February, 1912, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Clarke, J.:
On the 4th of October, 1909, the plaintiff, through an agent, entered into a written agreement with the defendant by which the defendant agreed to sell and the plaintiff to purchase a tract of land located at Carteret, in the township of Wood-bridge, Middlesex county, N. J. The boundary as set forth, so far as material, is as follows: “Beginning at a point in the waters of Staten Island Sound measured at right angles 300 feet southerly from the Arrowsmith line and running along said waterway of Staten Island Sound; * * * the exact amount of said acreage to.be determined by the…
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