Legal Opinion
Riley v. Hodgkins
New Jersey Court of Chancery
Decided December 29, 1898PublishedCited by 8 opinions
On demurrer, to bill.
1Opinion of the Court
Grey, V. C.
The bill in this cause is filed to obtain the specific performance of an alleged agreement to convey six lots in Jersey City. The title to the lots is stated by the bill to be in the defendants-Addie Hodgkins, Mary S. Shumway and Hattie A. Millett, the heirs-at-law of one Benjamin B. Hamblin, deceased. The bill alleges that on January 31st, 1898, the complainant,
“through, and by a certain John E. Foley, who at that time and prior thereto then and there was the agent of the said heirs-at-law of the said Benjamin B. Hamblin, purchased the said premises hereinbefore described, and by…
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