Rozene v. Sverid

This is a bill for specific performance and for damages resulting from the defendant’s alleged breach of an agreement to sell approximately eleven acres of land (the locus) to the plaintiff. The defendant demurred to the bill on the ground, among others, that the alleged memorandum of the agreement was insufficient to satisfy the Statute of Frauds. The trial judge overruled the defendant’s demurrer. The case was submitted to a master. The judge denied the defendant’s motion to recommit the master’s report, and confirmed the report. He then ruled that there was no memorandum of the agreement…