Robbins v. Clock

This is an action for specific performance of a contract to convey real property, or in the alternative for damages for breach of contract, if specific performance cannot be decreed. The defendant has refused to perform, principally on the ground that the contract was procured by false and fraudulent representations as to the value of the property on the part of the vendee or his privies. The contract was signed by the defendant about February 19, 1906, while she was residing in the State of Florida. The land in question is located in Nassau county, N. Y., near the village of Amityville. The…