Daniel Webster Council, Inc. v. St. James Ass'n

This case involves a bill in equity for specific performance filed by the plaintiff, Daniel Webster Council, Inc., Boy Scouts of America. The Superior Court (M. Flynn, J.) granted the plaintiff’s request for specific performance and ordered St. James Association, Inc., the defendant, to transfer the real property described in a sales agreement to the plaintiff. We reverse the superior court’s order.

The parties hereto are charitable corporations which entered into a land contract on February 8, 1979, pertaining to a parcel of the defendant’s land, known as Camp Leo, situated on the shores of…