Glass v. Hulbert
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity seeking relief in the matter of a contract relating to land. Issue was joined on the answer, and the case reserved by the chief justice “ for the consideration and decision of the full court upon the question whether upon the allegations of the bill the plaintiff is entitled to relief in equity, and whether the plaintiff has not a full, adequate and complete remedy at law; the defendant also relying in his answer upon the statute of frauds.”
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Bill in equity seeking relief in the matter of a contract relating to land. Issue was joined on the answer, and the case reserved by the chief justice “ for the consideration and decision of the full court upon the question whether upon the allegations of the bill the plaintiff is entitled to relief in equity, and whether the plaintiff has not a full, adequate and complete remedy at law; the defendant also relying in his answer upon the statute of frauds.” The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtWells, J.
The plaintiff purchased certain lots of land of the defendant, received a deed, and paid the whole amount of the purchase money. This suit is brought for relief or redress in several particulars, dissimilar in character, but all connected with the alleged oral contract of purchase. He complains: First, that a proviso was inserted in his deed, imposing upon him the burden of supporting the whole fence upon the south line of the land conveyed ; and that he was induced to assent to its insertion upon the consideration, and false representation of the defendant, that the whole fence upon the east…
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