Low v. Low
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed October 28, 1897, in the Superior Court, against Mary J. Low, the widow of Benjamin Low, (who was also the administratrix of his estate,) and Cecil H. Low and Helen R. McKenney, his children, to enforce specific performance of an oral agreement by him to convey certain land in Gloucester to the plaintiff. At the hearing a decree was entered for the plaintiff; and the defendants appealed to this court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
A decree for the plaintiff has been entered upon the facts reported by the master, there are no exceptions to his report, and the case comes here only upon the defendants’ appeal from the decree.
The general situation is this. In the year 1870 the plaintiff had title to certain lands which had been conveyed to him in 1869, subject to encumbrances, by a brother who shortly after-wards became bankrupt. Another brother, Benjamin Low, *581through whom the defendants claim, had acquired the mortgages upon the lands, and had also taken a conveyance from the bankrupt’s assignees, and desired to obtain…
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