Ratshesky v. Piscopo
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on April 11, 1918, and on motion removed to the Supreme Judicial Court, against Benjamin Piscopo, Albert A. Golden and Edith B. Golden, alleging in substance that the defendant Piscopo had agreed in writing on December 4, 1917, to sell to the plaintiff for $11,000 “the real estate on the southeasterly side of Hanover Street, in . . . Boston, lying northeasterly and southeasterly of the Hotel Venice so called containing about 1860…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on April 11, 1918, and on motion removed to the Supreme Judicial Court, against Benjamin Piscopo, Albert A. Golden and Edith B. Golden, alleging in substance that the defendant Piscopo had agreed in writing on December 4, 1917, to sell to the plaintiff for $11,000 “the real estate on the southeasterly side of Hanover Street, in . . . Boston, lying northeasterly and southeasterly of the Hotel Venice so called containing about 1860 square feet, the same being more particularly bounded and described in a deed to . . . [Piscopo] from Francesco Sessa,…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The appeals from the interlocutory decrees over-* ruling the demurrers not having been argued are to be treated as waived, and the questions for decision under the defendants’ appeals from the final decree are, whether the defendant Edith B. Golden is an innocent purchaser for value of the premises in dispute, and, if she is not, whether the plaintiff is entitled to specific performance. The case was submitted to the single justice and is before us on a master’s report, from which it appears that before the various transactions he reports took place, the defendant Piscopo, hereafter called…
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