Mason v. Albert

The bill seeks a specific performance of a verbal contract for the sale of land founded upon part performance.

It appears by the master’s report that the plaintiff and the defendant agreed to buy and sell the premises on Plymouth Avenue, Fall River, described in the first paragraph of the amended bill of complaint; that the premises were to be conveyed free of all encumbrances, except the taxes for the year 1920, for the purchase price of $3,250; that the plaintiff was to pay the defendant $50 for the privilege of entering a private sewer of the defendant on Plymouth Avenue, and was to…