Barnes v. Boston & Maine Railroad

This is a hill for the specific performance by the defendants of two oral agreements made by the Danvers and Georgetown Railroad Company with the plaintiff, by which that corporation undertook to release to the plaintiff certain parcels of land included in its location. The bill alleges that two of these parcels were owned by the plaintiff when the location was filed, and that the others were owned by one Nelson, from whom the plaintiff bought them, subject to the easement of the corporation, and with the right to receive to his own use the compensation due for the land taken.

The bill further…