Young v. Rathbone

The Chancellor.

The bill is filed to enforce the specific performance of a contract for the sale of certain real estate made by the complainant, as administrator with the will annexed, and trustee of the estate of Catharine 0. Young, deceased, to the defendant. The sale was made on the twenty-second of September, 1860. By the conditions of sale the deed was to have been delivered on the first Monday of December following. The defendant declined to accept the deed, and now resists a decree for specific performance on the ground of defective title.

Catharine C. Young, the complainant’s testatrix,…