Barbour v. Barbour
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On appeal from a decree advised by Vice-Chancellor Bird, whose opinion is reported in Barbour v. Barbour, 4 Dick. Ch. Rep. 429.
1Opinion of the CourtBeasley, C. J.
The substance of the bill exhibited in this case is to the effect that about two years previous to this suit the respondent had proceeded for a divorce from her husband on the ground of his adultery, and that, upon his promise to amend and to convey to her a certain house in the city of New Brunswick, she had returned to his bed and board and had withdrawn her proceedings against him. This course of law is to compel the specific performance of the stipulation to convey the property thus alluded to. The defendant in his answer denies altogether the alleged contract.
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