Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity v. Puffer
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, against the administrators of the estate of Alvin D. Puffer, to recover damages for the alleged breach by the defendants’ testator of an agreement in writing to purchase from the plaintiff certain real estate on Lancaster Street in Boston, which formerly belonged to one James Stevenson.
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Contract, against the administrators of the estate of Alvin D. Puffer, to recover damages for the alleged breach by the defendants’ testator of an agreement in writing to purchase from the plaintiff certain real estate on Lancaster Street in Boston, which formerly belonged to one James Stevenson. Writ dated October 17, 1903. The action was begun against Alvin D. Puffer during his lifetime, and after his death the defendants were admitted to defend the action as administrators of his estate. The original answer, filed on December 3,1903, contained a general denial and an allegation of a…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, J.
The plaintiff seeks to recover in an action of contract damages for the refusal of the defendants’ testator to purchase real estate according to the terms of his written agreement. The plaintiff traces its title, by various mesne conveyances, from a deed of James Stevenson to William A. Hayes, duly entered for record at fifty-five minutes past four in the afternoon of December 1, 1897. Simultaneously with this deed was recorded a declaration of trust by Hayes, which recited that the several parcels of real estate included in the transfer to him were incumbered, and that Stevenson was desirous…
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