Pickman v. Hays

The defendants, the sellers, appeal from a final decree of a Probate Court (G. L. c. 215 § 6) granting the plaintiffs, the buyers, specific performance of a written agreement for the purchase and sale of “ [a] parcel of land on and off Goss Hill Road . . . being about two hundred (200) acres in the aggregate and being [with stated exceptions] all the land conveyed” to the defendants by a deed which contained certain descriptions by metes and bounds (see Powell v. Clark, 5 Mass. 355, 356-357 [1809]). Compare Ratshesky v. Piscopo, 239 Mass. 180, 187 [1921]). The purchase price was to be $250…