Dzuris v. Pierce
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on May 5, 1913, against Everett A. Pierce and Edward J. Pinney, trustees of the Pierce-Pinney Realty Trust, and Charles C. Abbey.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on May 5, 1913, against Everett A. Pierce and Edward J. Pinney, trustees of the Pierce-Pinney Realty Trust, and Charles C. Abbey. The plaintiff alleged in substance that he was induced to exchange a farm in Westfield for certain apartment house property of the defendant trustees in Springfield subject to a mortgage for $30,000 held by the Spencer Savings Bank, he also giving to the defendant trustees a second mortgage for $15,000 on the property which he received from them; that he was induced to make the exchange by certain false representations by…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
The plaintiff seeks to set aside an exchange of real estate between himself and the defendants. The case was sent to a master. No objections or exceptions to his report were filed and it has been confirmed. The material facts therein narrated must be taken as true because no evidence is reported. The plaintiff, an Hungarian by birth, being unable to write anything in English except his own name and unable to read English to any extent, owned a farm which he placed in the hands of three agents, Fenton, Brown and Berman, to sell. These same agents earlier had been employed by the defendants to…
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