Gregory v. Peabody

This action was brought to recover the value of improvements made by the plaintiff upon the real property of Charles E. Peabody and his wife. It was alleged that he, for himself and the community composed of himself and wife, entered into an oral agreement with plaintiff to give a fifteen year lease of five acres of what is commonly known as Donnybrook farm to a corporation to be organized by the plaintiff and to be known as “Donnybrook Gardens”, of which plaintiff and others were to be stockholders; and • that, relying upon the agreement, the plaintiff, with the knowledge and consent of…