Dooley v. Merrill

This is a bill in equity whereby the plaintiff seeks to compel the original defendant, who when the bill was filed was Margaret Wheelock, to perform specifically an agreement to convey certain real estate. After issue had been joined, and on the day before the trial upon its merits, the original defendant and Herbert C. Merrill were married, the latter having notice of the pendency of this suit and of the plaintiff’s claims in it. He subsequently was joined as defendant. All the issues of fact have been determined in fa*vo*r of the plaintiff. The only question presented is the correctness of…