Harrigan v. Dodge
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on January 7, 1910, to enforce the specific performance of a contract, alleged to have been made on December 18, 1906, to sell and convey to the plaintiff a certain tract of land with the buildings thereon, in Danvers, which formerly belonged to one Francis Dodge, late of Danvers, and at the time of the filing of the bill belonged to the defendants, as devisees under his will.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on January 7, 1910, to enforce the specific performance of a contract, alleged to have been made on December 18, 1906, to sell and convey to the plaintiff a certain tract of land with the buildings thereon, in Danvers, which formerly belonged to one Francis Dodge, late of Danvers, and at the time of the filing of the bill belonged to the defendants, as devisees under his will. A former suit brought to compel the performance of this contract, the decision of which upon demurrer is reported in 200 Mass. 357, was brought against Eben Dodge alone, who,…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is a suit in equity to compel the defendants to convey real estate to the plaintiff. The .evidence is not reported, and no objections or exceptions were filed to the master’s report. The only question presented is whether the decree dismissing the bill was warranted on the pleadings and the report. Huntress v. Hanley, 195 Mass. 236, 239. No point now is made as to the statute of frauds, for the averments and proof absent in Harrigan v. Dodge, 200 Mass. 357, have been supplied.
A real estate agent or broker is not an agent of general powers. As a rule he has no authority to bind his…
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