Eastman Marble Co. v. Vermont Marble Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court for the county of Suffolk on July 18, 1917, and afterwards amended by the filing of a substitute bill on June 10, 1919, by the Eastman Marble Company, a Massachusetts corporation, Harvey T. Buck, Louella Howe Grant, both individually and as administratrix of the estate of John W. Howe, and George P. Eastman against the Vermont Marble Company, a Vermont corporation, seeking specific performance of a contract in writing dated…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court for the county of Suffolk on July 18, 1917, and afterwards amended by the filing of a substitute bill on June 10, 1919, by the Eastman Marble Company, a Massachusetts corporation, Harvey T. Buck, Louella Howe Grant, both individually and as administratrix of the estate of John W. Howe, and George P. Eastman against the Vermont Marble Company, a Vermont corporation, seeking specific performance of a contract in writing dated July 18, 1892, relating to certain land containing quarries in West Rutland in Vermont, the parties to the contract…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is a suit in equity whereby the plaintiffs seek to obtain the specific performance of a written contract to convey land containing marble quarries and located in West Rutland in the State of Vermont. The contract bearing date July 18,1892, purports to have been signed by the Vermont Marble Company, a New York corporation, predecessor of the defendant, a Vermont corporation, which, together with two of its officers or agents constitute the party of the first part, and by John W. Howe and Harvey T. Buck, to whose rights the corporate plaintiff alleges that it has succeeded by assignment…
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