Laforme v. Bradley
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Bill in Equity, for the specific performance of a contract for the sale of real estate. Facts found by a master. Transferred from the May term, 1912, of the superior court by Plummer, J., without a ruling on, the question of law involved.
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
It appears from the case that August 14, 1908, the defendants, Cora B. Bradley and her husband William J. Bradley, owned certain real estate known as the “Woodward farm,” that they authorized the sale of the land at auction on that date, and that it was sold to the plaintiff. The auctioneer gave the plaintiff a receipt signed by himself for the sum of $100, “as a deposit and in part payment, for the place this day sold by me at public auction for the sum of $3,125.” The plaintiff also signed a memorandum that he had “purchased at public auction” of the auctioneer “the real estate described in…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- White v. PooleSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1906
- Brown v. WhippleSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1877
- Hickey v. DoleSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1890