Sunter v. Sunter
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
' Bill in equity, filed April 25,1904, by Andrew B. Sunter and Jennie B. Bolton, children of Andrew B. Sunter and Jane Sunter, against their brother William M. Sunter, praying that the defendant be ordered to convey to each of the plaintiffs an undivided third part of a certain parcel of real estate on Cottage Street in that part of Boston called Dorchester conveyed to the defendant by Jane Sunter, the mother of the plaintiffs and the defendant; who died on February 24,…
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' Bill in equity, filed April 25,1904, by Andrew B. Sunter and Jennie B. Bolton, children of Andrew B. Sunter and Jane Sunter, against their brother William M. Sunter, praying that the defendant be ordered to convey to each of the plaintiffs an undivided third part of a certain parcel of real estate on Cottage Street in that part of Boston called Dorchester conveyed to the defendant by Jane Sunter, the mother of the plaintiffs and the defendant; who died on February 24, 1904, and for an accounting for all the rents and profits received from the real estate in question by Jane Sunter and the…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
Unless the defendant is a purchaser for value, and without notice of the infirmity of his mother’s title, as against the plaintiffs he holds by no better right the land described in the bill. Wyman v. Hooper, 2 Gray, 141, 145. In equity the consideration must be valuable as distinguished from that which is merely moral or equitable, or imported from the nature of a sealed instrument, though it need not be pecuniary, or equal to the value of the property conveyed. Bullock v. Sadlier, Ambl. 764. Patten v. Moore, 32 N. H. 382. Wood v. Robinson, 22 N. Y. 564, 567. Price v. Jenkins, 5 Ch. D. 619.…
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