Chamberland v. Goldberg

This is a bill in equity seeking specific performance of an alleged oral agreement creating a life tenancy with a collateral condition in a tenement occupied by the complainant and owned by the respondents Samuel and Marion H. Goldberg, husband and wife, and for injunctive relief. After a hearing in the superior court on bill, answer, and proof a decree was entered in favor of the complainant. The cause is before us on the respondents’ claim of appeal from such decree.

The respondents rely upon the usual reasons of appeal that the decree is against the law, against the evidence, against the…