Van Horn v. Stuyvesant
New York Supreme Court
Action by plaintiff, the vendee, under a contract to convey realty, to enforce a vendee’s lien for the sum of $1,000 paid by him on said contract, together with the amount paid for searching title.
1Opinion of the CourtBlanchard, J.
This is an action brought by the plaintiff, who is the vendee under a contract to convey realty, to enforce a vendee’s lien for the sum of $1,000, paid by him on said contract, together with $158.50 paid for searching title. The contract provided that the defendant should convey to the plaintiff a “ certain dwelling house, lot, piece- and parcel of land” described by metes and bounds and “being known as Fo. 344 West Fifty-eighth street, in the Borough of Manhattan, City of Few York.” A survey has shown that these premises encroach upon the adjacent premises, *434Ho. 346, in the following…
2Cases cited34 opinions
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- Gayetty v. BethuneMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1817
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