Rodrigue v. Morin

GODFREY, Justice.

Joseph and Laurette Rodrigue owned in Augusta an irregularly-shaped tract of land, on which was their house, about nineteen acres in area, bounded on the northerly side by Thomaston Road (also known as Eastern Avenue) and on the easterly side by Pleasant Hill Road. Early in 1972, the Rodrigues placed the tract for sale, employing a real estate broker for that purpose. Defendant, Oscar Morin, having shown some interest in purchasing most of the tract, without the house, the broker prepared a rough sketch of the tract from a city tax map on which he marked off a small parcel in…