Huberdeau v. Desmarais

Defendants, husband and wife, bought a hop farm on an executory contract of conditional sale. Several years later, the husband signed an agreement that, in event of a forfeiture, the buyers would transfer to the seller their United States Department of Agriculture hop allotment base. When the seller declared a forfeiture, however, defendants refused to transfer the allotment base, claiming that the husband’s agreement to do so was unenforceable for want of consideration. From a decree ordering the transfer of the hop allotment base to the vendor, defendants appealed, and the Court of Appeals,…