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Samuel V. Abel, Appellant, v. Henry Bischoff, Jr., et al., Individually and as Executors of and Trustees under the Will of Henry Bischoff, Deceased, Respondents, 1906 — 185 N.Y. 568 · caselaw · US
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Samuel V. Abel, Appellant, v. Henry Bischoff, Jr., et al., Individually and as Executors of and Trustees under the Will of Henry Bischoff, Deceased, Respondents
185 N.Y. 568·New York Court of Appeals·1906·NY
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Samuel V. Abel, Appellant, v. Henry Bischoff, Jr., et al., Individually and as Executors of and Trustees under the Will of Henry Bischoff, Deceased, Respondents.
Abel v. Bischoff, 99 App. Div. 248, modified.
(Argued May 17, 1906;
decided May 22, 1906.)
' ' Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered March 9, 1905, modifying, and affirming as modified, a judgment of Special Term in an action to compel the specific performance of a contract for the sale of certain real property.
Charles Blandy and William L. Stone, Jr., for appellant.
John A. Straley for respondents.
[MAJORITY]
Judgment modified so as to provide that on closing the title plaintiff may j>ay therefor to the extent of $105,000, by executing a bond and mortgage covering said premises for said sum, payable in four months from date of closing, with interest at five per cent per annum, plaintiff to accept deed and pay purchase money within twenty days from the date of the entry of judgment on the remittitur from this court at the place designated in the judgment of the Special Term, at twelve m., and judgment as modified affirmed, without costs in this court to either party; no opinion.
Concur: Cullen, Ch. J., Edward T. Bartlett, Haight, Hiscock and Chase, JJ. Absent: Gray and O’Brien, JJ.