Legal Opinion
Greene v. Marshall
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 16, 1940No. 3524PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Per curiam
This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court ordering specific performance by the vendee of an executory contract to buy land. Jurisdiction rested on diversity of citizenship. The contract, which was made in Massachusetts, called for the purchase and sale of land in New Hampshire. Both parties have assumed that their rights in the case at bar are governed by the law of Massachusetts, rather than that of New Hampshire. In this case it does not matter which, because by the law of both states specific performance in proper cases may be decreed against the vendee as well as against the…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Cathcart v. RobinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1831
- Mansfield v. WilesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1915
- Morgan v. ForbesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1920
- Eckstein v. DowningSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1886
- Spector v. TrasterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1930
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