Young v. Walker
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on December 2,1914, and afterwards amended, against Alexander T. Walker and Marcia G. Greenough, alleging in substance that on September 1, 1902, the plaintiff and the defendant Greenough made a contract, a memorandum of which stated that she did “sell to” the plaintiff the real estate known as “Ashley Hall” or the “ Whittemore Property” and certain personal property therein, the plaintiff to pay to her $450 monthly and $6,500 in…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on December 2,1914, and afterwards amended, against Alexander T. Walker and Marcia G. Greenough, alleging in substance that on September 1, 1902, the plaintiff and the defendant Greenough made a contract, a memorandum of which stated that she did “sell to” the plaintiff the real estate known as “Ashley Hall” or the “ Whittemore Property” and certain personal property therein, the plaintiff to pay to her $450 monthly and $6,500 in cash at the expiration of three years and to have a clear title, the plaintiff agreeing that, in case he failed to pay…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
Upon the allegations in the bill, admitted to be true by the demurrer, the defendant Walker had full knowledge of the terms of the agreement dated September 1,1902, at the time he took title to the premises and dispossessed the plaintiff. He then knew that the plaintiff had paid $1,350 in partial performance of the terms of the agreement; that the plaintiff had expended not less than $5,000 in the improvement and preservation of the property, and that the time for the payment of the balance of the price to be paid and for the delivery of the deed had been extended by agreement for one year…
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