King v. Allen

By his action filed on October 1, 1973, the plaintiff sought specific performance of a 1968 real estate agreement for the sale of land in Chilmark against the defendant, the successor in interest to the title of the original sellers of the property (Rex E. and Alice W. Weeks). In King v. Allen, 5 Mass. App. Ct. 868 (1977), we reversed a judgment denying the plaintiff specific performance and ordered that a “new judgment . . . [for specific performance] be entered in accordance with the [plaintiff’s] motion therefor.” Id. at 870. See also Seward v. Weeks, 360 Mass. 410 (1971) (determining that…