Jacobson v. Lambert

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Trenchard, J.

This is an appeal from an order striking out the answer filed by the defendant in the court below. The bill of complaint was filed to compel the specific performance by the defendant of a contract entered into between the complainants and the defendant, by the express terms of which the complainants agreed to sell and the defendant agreed to purchase a certain tract of land in the city of Paterson, which was owned by the complainants, they agreeing to convey it to him for the sum of $15,000, of which $500 was to be paid upon the signing of…