Jackson v. Wax

The Chancellor:

The defendant, Adair, is not a party to the contract which the complainant seeks to have performed.' The bill shows that record title to a narrow strip of the land contracted to be sold is in Adair, but alleges the complainant to have a good title to the strip by reason of adverse possession. The demurrer raises the question of whether the complainant in a bill for specific performance of a contract for the sale of the land in which the narrow strip is included, can join as a party defendant with the vendee one who has a record title to-the strip, the bill alleging that the…