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Theodore Griffin, Respondent, v. Swinburne Hale, Appellant.
    
      Contract — specific performance — letters constituting contract for purchase of real property — when specific performance decreed.
    
    
      Griffin v. Hale, 202 App. Div. 731, affirmed.
    (Argued January 10, 1923;
    decided January 30, 1923.)
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered May 9, 1922, modifying and affirming as modified a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term in an action to compel specific performance of an alleged contract to purchase real property. The alleged contract consisted of two letters, one from plaintiff’s agent to defendant and the defendant’s reply thereto. The trial court found that the two letters made a complete contract and decreed specific performance. The modification by the Appellate Division directed payment of interest upon the unpaid purchase money.
    
      Murray C. Bernays for appellant.
    
      C. W. Ticknor for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Hogan, Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Crane and Andrews, JJ.