Danforth v. Perry

This was a bill in chancery by appellee Perry against appellant Rufus Danforth and others, for the specific performance of an oral contract alleged to have been entered into in October, 1880, whereby Perry agreed, as he says, to sell and convey, or procure to be conveyed, to said Danforth or his wife, by good and sufficient warranty deed, a certain lot of land described in the bill, at an agreed price of five hundred and fifty dollars, tó be paid for by Danforth in work to be done by him as a painter, upon houses already built and to be built by said Perry, who was also to furnish Danforth…