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William Pollak, Appellant, v. John Dapper, Respondent.
    (Argued June 14, 1927;
    decided July 20, 1927.)
    
      Contract — specific performance — memorandum of sale of land providing “ terms to arrange upon the signing of the contract ” may not be specifically enforced.
    
    
      Pollak v. Dapper, 219 App. Div. 455, affirmed.
    Appeal from a judgment, entered March 21, 1927, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, reversing a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term and directing a dismissal of the complaint in an action to compel specific performance of an alleged contract for the sale of land. The memorandum relied upon stated “ terms to arrange upon the signing of the contract.”' The Appellate Division held that the writing was not a complete contract that might be specifically enforced.
    
      Henry W. Unger and A. Georges Sidelle for appellant.
    
      Joseph Gazzam and Patrick J. McGrath for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Cardozo, Ch. J., Pound, Crane, Andrews, Lehman, Kellogg and O’Brien, JJ.