Hughes v. Hadley

This is a bill for specific performance with abatement.

Complainant entered into a contract with the defendant to purchase two tracts of land and lease a third for five years. Complainant is willing to carry out the whole contract, provided he can get a good title to both the tracts, but he claims that the defendant cannot give good title to the second tract, and, therefore, he asks for specific performance only as to the first tract and abatement as to the rest.

Harry Stein, a real estate broker, first conceived the idea of the purchase of the property from the trustees (the defendant's…