Long v. Chandler
Court of Chancery of Delaware
Bill to Enforce Specific Performance of a contract to sell land. On September 28, 1914, William B. Chandler and wife conveyed to Joshua B. Chandler a lot of land in the town of Dagsboro, Sussex County, Delaware, with full, knowledge on the part of William B. Chandler and Joshua B. Chandler of the suit brought by the complainant against William B. Chandler for the specific performance of a contract entered into between the complainant and William B. Chandler for the sale of…
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Bill to Enforce Specific Performance of a contract to sell land. On September 28, 1914, William B. Chandler and wife conveyed to Joshua B. Chandler a lot of land in the town of Dagsboro, Sussex County, Delaware, with full, knowledge on the part of William B. Chandler and Joshua B. Chandler of the suit brought by the complainant against William B. Chandler for the specific performance of a contract entered into between the complainant and William B. Chandler for the sale of the same lot of land (10 Del. Ch. 339, 92 All. 256), a decree requiring William B. Chandler to specifically perform said…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The bill in this case is for the specific performance of a contract for the sale of real- estate, and is brought by the purchaser against the seller and one who took and holds the legal title from the seller with notice of the rights of the buyer under the contract and of his efforts to enforce them in order to obtain a conveyance. In the first suit (10 Del. Ch. 339; 92 Atl. 256), the complainant, Long, sought to compel William B. Chandler to convey to him the same land and also to give the complainant a bond to indemnify him-against the possible dower rights of Chandler’s…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Long v. ChandlerCourt of Chancery of Delaware · 1914
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