Bowman v. McClenahan
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Julius Bowman, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of' the county of New York on the 5th day of March, 1897, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Rumsey, J. :
The action was brought for the specific performance of an alleged contract for the purchase of land made by the defendant. The property consists of a house and lot in West Forty-first street belonging to the plaintiff. On the 6th day of May, 1896, with other lands belonging to the plaintiff, it was put up to be sold at. auction. There were three pieces of land in all, and the one in question was the last of the three to be sold. The first two were bid in for the plaintiff, but the fact that they were so bid in was. not. made public at the time of the-sale. After those two pieces…
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