Hawes v. Williams
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Report. Bill in equity, beard on bill, answers and proof, brought for the recovery of $509.16, and interest alleged to be wrongfully diverted from the estate and heirs of Emeline Williams.
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On Report. Bill in equity, beard on bill, answers and proof, brought for the recovery of $509.16, and interest alleged to be wrongfully diverted from the estate and heirs of Emeline Williams. The material facts are as follows: — October 9, 1888, Ira W. Page obtained from Lawrence Williams, since deceased, fifteen hundred dollars, and gave the latter an absolute deed of a lot of land and buildings in Hartland, taking back a written agreement, which was not sealed or acknowledged and not recorded, to convey the same premises by quitclaim deed to said Page if the latter paid him or his legal…
1Opinion of the CourtHaskell, J.
One Ira W. Page being the owner of certain land conveyed the same in fee to Lawrence Williams then alive, but now dead. At the same time Williams gave Page a writing, not under seal, agreeing, among other things, that if Page should pay him fifteen dollars a month until he shall have paid $1500 with interest, that he, Williams, would reconvey the land. The writing contained a stipulation that Page might occupy the premises so long as he fulfilled his part of the agreement, but that upon breach of any part of it he should forfeit all right to the land and money paid on account of it as well.
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