Messier v. Rainville
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Bill in Equity to set aside a deed and mortgage, and for a reconveyance, and for relief in the nature of specific performance and for an injunction.
1Opinion of the CourtJohnson, J.
This is a suit in equity, brought in Kent county, by Hermenigile Messier against his sister, Cordelia E. Rainville, her husband, Stanislas Rainville, and his mother, Cordelia Chevalier Messier, to set aside a deed and mortgage, and for a recon-veyance, and for relief in the nature of specific performance, and for an injunction.
It was alleged in the bill that on the 12th day of January 1891, the respondent Cordelia Chevalier Messier was possessed of certain real and personal estate in the town of Warwick, and that prior to that time she had agreed with the complainant, who was her son, “that…
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