Court Opinion

ID: 5762252
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 17:16:34.625151+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:41:34.993679
License: Public Domain

Order unanimously affirmed, with costs. Memorandum: It may well be that in denying the motion for summary judgment without stating the reasons therefor, Special Term felt that the contract was ambiguous and a trial was neccessary to receive evidence which would make clear the intention of the parties (Spencer v. Childs, 1 N Y 2d 103, 107; Lachs v. Fidelity & Cas. Co., 306 N. Y. 357, 364). We would also likf to point out that in an action for specific performance with abatement, a judg ment for the plaintiff may be denied if the vendee had knowledge of the unremovable incumbrance at the time of execution of the contract (49 Am. Jur., Specific Performance, § 106). Proof of such knowledge would be admissible on trial, not as varying the terms of the contract, but as establishing the conditions existing at the time of execution relevant to whether the equitable remedy should be denied (Warren v. Hall, 41 Hun 466). (Appeal from order of Monroe Special Term denying plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment, in an action for specific performance.) Present — Williams, P. J., Bastow, Goldman, Del Vecchio- and Marsh, JJ.