Mansfield v. Hodgdon

This is a bill specifically to enforce a covenant to sell to the plaintiff “ the farm situated in that part of Mount Desert Island called Pretty Marsh, and consisting of between two hundred and sixty and two hundred and seventy acres, and *305standing in the name of Benjamin Hodgdon, for the sum of fifteen hundred dollars cash, at any time within thirty days from the date hereof.” The instrument is dated January 15, 1887, and is signed by the defendant Hodgdon, but not by his wife. The defendant Clara E. Allen is a subsequent grantee of the premises, and the remaining defendant, William H. Allen,…