Romme v. Ostheimer

The plaintiff brought this action, coming to us upon a reservation, to compel specific performance of a contract for the sale by her to the defendant of a tract of land in Roxbury in the town of Stamford, for the sum of $1350. The defendant has refused to accept a warranty deed tendered by her, upon the ground that she cannot convey a good and marketable title as provided in the contract. She derived her title to the premises under the will of her husband. In the second paragraph of that instrument he gave, devised and bequeathed to her all his property, both real and personal, “with the…