Meagher v. Hoyle
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the defendant, to this court, on appeal, upon agreed facts, the nature of which appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
The instrument declared on is not a bond for a deed, but an agreement by the terms of which the plaintiff agrees to sell and the defendant to purchase certain land in Newton for $750, on certain conditions. The plaintiff agrees to deliver a warranty deed, when the defendant shall have paid the sum of fifty dollars, and shall have made twenty-eight monthly payments of twenty-five dollars each. Then follows this clause: “And the said party of the second part [the defendant] further agrees that, if he shall change his place of residence without notice, and thereby or for any other cause default…
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