Hart v. Hart
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Max Hart, from an interlocutor) • 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 27th day of May, 1918, upon the decision of the court after a trial at the New York Special Term. The judgment directed that an accounting be had before a referee and decreed specific performance of an oral agreement.
1Opinion of the Court
Page, J.:
• The evidence amply sustains the findings of the learned justice at Special Term, that the plaintiff and defendant had mutually agreed that if the plaintiff would discontinue the actions for a divorce and for a dissolution of the partnership *284which she alleged had existed between them in the vaudeville booking business, and return to and live with the defendant as man and wife, the defendant would pay to the plaintiff $20,000 in cash, and make an equal division of all his property and transfer to her the one-half part thereof; that in consideration of this agreement the plaintiff…
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