Miranda v. Araujo

This Report challenges the correctness of the trial judge’s determination that sellers of real estate cannot enforce (by reason of the Statuteof Frauds)the oral promise of the last in a succession of grantees to pay the balance of the purchase price left unpaid by the first grantee.

The contract action was remanded to the District Court from the Superior Court. The plaintiffs on July 1,1976, conveyed realty to Jose F. DaCosta and Maria DaCosta with the purchasers agreeing orally to pay a portion of the purchase price amounting to $8,000. in monthly installments of $50 each. In 1978 these…