Burges v. Thompson

This is a suit in equity to enforce the specific performance of a contract by which the complainant agreed to sell, and the defendant Thompson to purchase, one undivided twelfth part of a lot of land lying in the city of Providence, and commonly known as the Ployle Tavern estate. Thompson defends the suit on the ground that the complainant cannot convey to him a good title.

The bill shows that the complainant gets his title from his father, the late Tristam Barges, who was formerly the owner of said estate, and who died leaving a will which contained the following clause, to wit: “ I give,…