Freeman v. Robinson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, to recover a deposit of $400 paid by the plaintiff to the defendants under an agreement in writing for the purchase and sale of a grocery business, and for damages because of an alleged breach of the agreement.
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Contract, to recover a deposit of $400 paid by the plaintiff to the defendants under an agreement in writing for the purchase and sale of a grocery business, and for damages because of an alleged breach of the agreement. Writ in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston dated April 10, 1919. The defendants filed an answer consisting of a general denial, payment, and a denial of signatures and also filed a declaration in set-off to which the plaintiff interposed an answer of general denial. At the trial in the Municipal Cotut there was evidence that the parties had entered into the agreement…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is an action for the breach of a written contract interchangeably executed between the parties for the sale by the defendants and the purchase.by the plaintiff of a store. The writ is dated April 10, 1919. No question is raised as to parties. The agreement as printed in the record provided, among other matters, that the transfer of title should take place on or before April 7, 1919, at three o’clock in the afternoon at a designated place, and that the defendants should secure a lease for the *451plaintiff for a stipulated term and price. The trial proceeded on the theory that April 9 rather…
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