Pyatt v. Lyons
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On appeal from a decree advised by Vice-Chancellor Bird, reported in Lyons v. Wait, 6 Dick. Ch. Rep. 60. Mr. Woodbury D. Holt and Mr. Fergus A. Dennis, for the-appellants.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Abbett, J.
The bill in this case was filed for specific performance of a contract for the sale of lands. On December 12th, 1891, Mrs., Pyatt and Mrs. Wait, two of the defendants below, believed themselves and were supposed to be the owners in fee of a lot of land located at the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon streets, in' Princeton. The lot in question was twenty-two feet six inches-in width on Nassau street, with a building thereon, which extended over upon and encroached three feet eleven inches upon Witherspoon street. On that date Mrs. Wait gave to…
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