Case ID: ny-st-rep_39/html/0985-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Dykman, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Joseph H. Colyer, App’lt, v. Mary Louise Williams et al., Resp’ts.
    Appeal from judgment dismissing complaint.
    
      James Troy, for app’lt; Carpenter & Roderick and W. M. Benedict, for resp’ts.
   Dykman, J.

—This action was commenced to compel the specific performance of a contract for the sale of land to the plaintiff by Mary Louise Bragaw and John Bragaw, her husband.

The title to the land was in the wife and she is dead, and the trustee under her last will and testament and the other defendants who answered set up the incompetency of Mary L. Bragaw to attend to business or understand or com, prehend the purport and meaning or effect, character or contents of the contract upon which the action is based.

The trial judge found all the facts set up by way of defense substantially as they were alleged and dismissed the plaintiff’s complaint.

The testimony fully sustains the findings, and all the facts and circumstances surrounding the transaction show plainly that it is not a case where a court of equity will decree a specific performance of the contract.

The exception to the exclusion of testimony is not well founded and the record discloses no error.

The judgment should be affirmed, with costs.

Barnard, P. J., concurs.