Palmer v. Morrison

This action was brought to enforce the specific performance of a contract for the sale of land by the vendor against the vendee. The vendee defends on tbe ground that the plaintiff is not able to give such a title to the land as he has the right to demand and receive. The material facts are as follows : In the year 1842, and prior thereto, the land was owned in fee-simple by one Hartshorn, then a resident of this state, who, in December of that year, was, upon his own application, adjudged a bankrupt by the United States district court for the Southern district of New York, pursuant to the…