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Katherina Von Bargen, Appellant, v. Isidore J. Ginsberg, Respondent.
    (Submitted June 22, 1927;
    decided July 20, 1927.)
    
      Vendor and purchaser — contract — specific performance — contract for sale of city lot described by street 'and number and showing quantity of land to be conveyed — specific performance denied for variance in quantity.
    
    
      Von Bargen v. Ginsberg, 218 App. Div. 545, affirmed.
    Appeal from a judgment, entered December 30, 1926, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second 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. The action was to compel specific performance of a contract to purchase real property described therein as “ Property known as and by the street number 1441 Bedford Avenue, being an eight-family brick and stone apartment building on a' lot about 33 by 95, irregular.” On the trial it was shown that the dimensions of the plot were thirty-three feet one and one-quarter inches fronting on Bedford avenue, ninety-three feet ten inches in depth on the northerly side, ninety-eight feet five and three-quarters inches in depth on the southerly side, both north and south dimensions tapering to the rear where the width was but fourteen feet one and one-half inches. The Appellate Division held that the quantity of land which the plaintiff was actually able to convey was not a compliance with the contract.
    
      
      Meier Steinbrink and Harold M. Kennedy for appellant.
    
      Clarence G. Bachrach and. Herman S. Bachrach for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

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