CHASE, Circuit Judge.
The controversy, which led to an action by the United States against the City of New York in the District Court for the Southern District of New York to enforce specific performance of a contract for the sale of land by the plaintiff to the defendant and to a decree for the plaintiff from which the defendant has appealed, grew out of the following facts and circumstances.
In 1867 the city conveyed to the United States certain land in...
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