Peeler v. Levy

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This is an action for specific performance, founded on a contract under seal, bearing date June 18th, 1874. By it the defendant agreed to exchange four tracts of land located in Montclair township, Essex county, for a farm of the complainant, containing about two hundred and thirty-six acres, situate in the township of Montgomery, Orange county, New York, subject to a mortgage of §26,000. The title to two of the four tracts was in the defendant’s wife, at the date of the-contract, and had been since September 8th, 1871. They were conveyed by the defendant to David A. Fro…