Brown v. Prescott

The plaintiffs ask for the specific performance of a parol contract made by the defendant Prescott, to convey certain real estate to the plaintiff Mary A. Brown, and for an injunction against the other defendants to restrain them from levying an execution upon it, in their favor, against Prescott.

The contract relied on is, that Prescott, prior to November, 1869, then and for several years after solvent, agreed with the plaintiffs John W. Brown and his wife Mary, who was Prescott’s daughter, that if they would return to Sanbornton, they then residing in Charlestown, Mass., Prescott would give…