MacKnight v. Pansey

This is a civil action to enjoin the conveyance of real property from defendant Antoinette Pansey (Mrs. Pansey) to defendant Gordon D. Noonan, and to compel specific performance of an alleged prior agreement by Mrs. Pansey’s agent to sell her property to the plaintiffs, Robert B. MacKnight, Jr., and Portia J. MacKnight. The plaintiffs contend that Mrs. Pansey had authorized Lionel J. Carreiro (Carreiro), a real estate agent with whom the property was listed, to sell it on her behalf. From a Superior Court judgment granting the plaintiffs’ prayers for relief, the defendants appeal.

Carreiro,…