Graves v. Goldthwait
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court, for specific performance. Hearing before Dewey, J., who reported the case for the consideration of this court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The following opinion was prepared by Mr. Justice Devens, and after his death was adopted as the opinion of the court by the Justices who sat with him at the argument.
The plaintiff and her six sisters were tenants in common of several parcels of land, and the plaintiff made an oral agreement with them by which she was to pay to each the sum of $1071.43, and they severally were to convey to her their right and title in and to one of these parcels, situate in Marblehead, upon which she resided. Relying upon each and all these agreements, three of the sisters soon conveyed and…
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