Legal Opinion

Danforth v. Chandler

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided March 3, 1921PublishedCited by 45 opinions

Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on November 20, 1918, seeking specific performance of an alleged agreement by the defendant to sell to the plaintiffs a forty acre farm in Pembroke.

1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.

The bill seeks specific performance of an alleged contract of the defendant to sell to the plaintiffs his farm of six contiguous parcels of land comprising about forty acres, with the buildings, situate in Pembroke, on the east side of West Elm Street. It appears that Charles G. Clapp Company were a firm of “real estate agents,” and the master finds specifically “that the defendant listed his farm with the Charles G. Clapp Company as a forty acre farm and that the Clapp Company as his agents were authorized to advertize for sale a farm of this area.” The plaintiffs in response to an…

2Cases cited18 opinions

  1. Glover v. Waltham Laundry Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1920
  2. Hurley v. BrownMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
  3. Mead v. ParkerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1874
  4. Brooks v. ShawMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1908
  5. Kennedy v. WelchMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907

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3Cited by45 opinions

  1. Ray v. WoosterSupreme Court of Missouri · 1954
  2. Michelson v. ShermanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1942
  3. Malaguti v. RosenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1928
  4. Cumberland Corp. v. MetropoulosMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1922
  5. Barrett Co. v. Panther Rubber Mfg. Co.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1928

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