Kingsley v. Siebrecht
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Report. This was an action of assumpsit to recover damages from the defendant for breach of an alleged contract by the defendant to pay six hundred dollars, and take an assignment of a lease.
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On Report. This was an action of assumpsit to recover damages from the defendant for breach of an alleged contract by the defendant to pay six hundred dollars, and take an assignment of a lease. The-writ is dated April 28, 1896. The declaration is as follows:— In a plea of the case, for that the plaintiff being possessed of the lease of a certain piece of land situated in Bar Harbor, in said Eden, which said lease was' dated April 27, 1895, in which said plaintiff agreed to pay to the lessor, one T. L. Roberts, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars per year rental, with the privilege of…
1Opinion of the CourtSavage, J.
The plaintiff alleges in her declaration that the defendant contracted to pay her $600 for the assignment to him of a written lease of a certain parcel of land in Bar Harbor from T. L. Roberts to her, dated April 27, 1895, for the term of ten years from that date, at a rental of $250 per year, with the privilege of buying the land at any time within the ten years for $3000; that she has tendered to the defendant an assignment of the lease, but that the defendant refused to receive the lease, and refused to pay the six hundred dollars.
The defendant pleads the statute of frauds. He also alleges…
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