Ransom v. Shaeffer

Charles B. Wheeler, Official Referee.

This action is one to enforce the specific performance of a contract by which the plaintiff agreed to sell and the defendant to purchase certain beach property located on Lake Ontario at Olcott, N..Y.

Several defenses are interposed by the defendant which will be discussed by the referee.

The contract in question provided for the sale of “ certain beach property west of the Government Pier at Olcott, New York, described as Blocks D E F & G in a map of Ransom Addition No. 2 of Olcott, New York, made by Julius F. Frashee, C. E. October 17th, 1921, and filed in…