Tobin v. Larkin
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Supplemental bill in equity, filed January 3, 1903, to enforce a decree obtained against all the owners in common of certain land in Lawrence other than one Martin Larkin, in a suit for the specific performance of a contract to convey the land to the plaintiff, in accordance with the decision of this court reported in 183 Mass. 389, in spite of a sale of the land in question to the defendant Patrick J. Lynch on a petition for partition filed by Martin Larkin, as described in…
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Supplemental bill in equity, filed January 3, 1903, to enforce a decree obtained against all the owners in common of certain land in Lawrence other than one Martin Larkin, in a suit for the specific performance of a contract to convey the land to the plaintiff, in accordance with the decision of this court reported in 183 Mass. 389, in spite of a sale of the land in question to the defendant Patrick J. Lynch on a petition for partition filed by Martin Larkin, as described in the opinion of the court. The defendants demurred. In the Superior Court Holmes, J. overruled the demurrer and made a…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
The plaintiff brought a bill in equity against Maria Larkin, Bridget Larkin and Martin Larkin, praying for a decree of specific performance of a contract for the sale of real estate. At the hearing it appeared that Martin Larkin owned one twelfth of the estate, and that his two sisters, the other defendants, owned eleven twelfths of it. The bill was sustained as to the two female defendants for their share of the property, and dismissed as to the other defendant. Pending an appeal by the female defendants, Bridget Larkin died. The defendant Martin Larkin began proceedings in the Probate Court…
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