Sanford v. Smith

This is an action for the specific performance of a typewritten option which the plaintiff claims was given by Scudder T. Whipple, now deceased, to Max Silberman on July 5, 1940. So far as is material here, for and in consideration of the sum of $1 and other good and valuable considerations, the receipt of which was therein acknowledged, it gave Silberman or his assignee, the right to purchase within two years from the date thereof, the Whipple theatre property with the buildings, equipment and improvements thereon, situate in the village of Fleischmanns, Delaware County, N. Y., for the sum…