Roberts v. New York Life Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Mary F. Roberts, 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 17th day of November, 1919, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 23d day of October, 1919, denying plaintiff’s motion to set aside the verdict and for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Page, J.:
On January 2, 1917, William C. Roberts entered into a contract with the New York Life Insurance Company for the purchase of the land and premises known as Madison Square Garden for the sum of $2,400,000, payable, $100,000 in cash upon signing the contract, $300,000 at the time and place of the delivery of the deed, and $2,000,000 by executing and delivering a bond and mortgage to secure payment of that sum on the 1st day of January, 1922. The New York Life Insurance Company agreed on its part to execute, acknowledge and deliver a proper deed, with covenants only against grantor’s…
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