Chute v. Quincy
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The first case was a bill in equity, filed in this court for a specific performance of an agreement to convey land. The second case was a bill to reform the same agreement, or to have it surrendered and cancelled. Hearing before Lathrop, J., who, at the request of the parties, reported the cases for the consideration of this court. The facts in the two cases, so far as material to the points decided, appear in the opinion.
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The first case was a bill in equity, filed in this court for a specific performance of an agreement to convey land. The second case was a bill to reform the same agreement, or to have it surrendered and cancelled. Hearing before Lathrop, J., who, at the request of the parties, reported the cases for the consideration of this court. The facts in the two cases, so far as material to the points decided, appear in the opinion. The cases were argued at the bar in January, 1892, and after-wards were submitted on the briefs to all the judges.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The plaintiff in the first case entered into a contract in writing for the purchase from the defendants of a lot of land which was one of a large number of lots held by them *190as trustees. The property was described in the contract as “a certain lot of land, being lot numbered 23 on plan of Charles S. Miller, dated April 10th, 1890, and recorded,” etc. This plan showed a great number of building lots, about eight hundred in all, designated by numbers, with the lengths of their boundary lines given and the number of square feet contained in each marked in plain figures. Lot No. 23 contained…
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