Grippo v. Davis
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to secure a conveyance of land from the defendant, under a contract made with her, or for damages, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Case, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff.
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Action to secure a conveyance of land from the defendant, under a contract made with her, or for damages, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Case, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff. The plaintiff succeeded to all rights which his father secured by virtue of an agreement with the defendant on June 26th, 1906, for the purchase of certain lots of land, and by another agreement with the defendant on May 15th, 1907, for the purchase of other lots. Each of these agreements contained substantially identical terms, except…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The principal grounds of error assigned in the appeal are the overruling of the plaintiff’s claims of law: (1) that the defendant had waived the provisions of the agreements as to payments; (2) that the acceptance of the payments other than as provided in the agreements amounted to a substitution payment for the payments of the original agreements; (3) that the defendant did not have the right to rescind the agreements; and (4) that the plaintiff was entitled to a decree for specific performance.
The agreements to purchase the defendant’s lots, followed by payments upon the purchase price,…
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