Rogers v. Helen Fountain Genung
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On appeal from a decree of the court of chancery advised by Vice-Chancellor Stevens, whose opinion is reported in 71 Ail. Rep. 230.
1Opinion of the Court
*307Tlie opinion of the court was delivered by
Bergen-, J.
Tlie bill charges that Harvey J. Genung, while acting as a confidential agent or broker for the complainant in negotiating the purchase of two tracts of land known respectively as the “Murphy” and “Conkling” properties, betrayed his trust by buying for himself, in the name of his wife, the Conkling tracts When the bill was filed a contract had been entered into by the vendors and the wife, by the terms of which a conveyance of the Conkling tract was to be subsequently executed and delivered, and the prayer of the bill is that the wife be…
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