Tuttle v. Howland

This is a bill in equity to compel specific performance of a contract to convey real estate. The sitting justice sustained the bill and ordered the defendant, William S. How-land, on the payment to him of the sum of $1,500, the contract price, less costs, to convey to the plaintiff by warranty deed the premises described in the bill, in which deed the defendant’s wife, Mary A. Howland, was ordered to join.

Mary A. Howland, the wife, was made a party defendant by amendment of the bill prior to the hearing. She filed a notice that she claimed her right by descent but no proper answer or…