Hood v. Hawkins

OPINION

SHEA, Justice.

The plaintiffs appeal from a judgment entered in Superior Court dismissing their complaint pursuant to Rule 41(b)(2) of the Superior Court Rules of Civil Procedure. The plaintiffs, twenty-one in all, are owners of cottages built upon a parcel of land owned by the defendants. 1 The defendants are Henry and Marion Hawkins, the former owners, and Alfred and Anna Tillinghast, the purchasers. The plaintiffs brought an action to compel specific performance of an oral contract for an option to purchase or for a right of first refusal in the sale of certain lots in a large tract…