O'Brien v. Boland
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court for a specific performance of an agreement to sell a block of uncompleted tenement houses. Hearing before Dunbar, J., who reported the case for the determination of this court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
The offer was made on Saturday, December 2, 1893, and the withdrawal on the following Monday. Before making the offer, the defendant sought and had two or three interviews with the plaintiff for the purpose of selling the property to him. The defendant shortly before had been in a state of mental depression, due to an accident which occurred some years before and to attacks of dyspepsia; sometimes he was very much depressed, at other times excited; sometimes he was in a dazed and absent minded condition, and at other times very despondent. On the Saturday mentioned the parties came to *482an…
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