Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, with costs, and that branch of the defendants' motion which was for summary judgment dismissing the first cause of action for specific performance is granted.
As a general rule, "[t]he specific performance of a contract for the purchase of real estate may be decreed only where it is possible for the defendant to convey the land" (Saperstein v Mechanics & Farmers Sav. Bank of Albany,
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