St. Lawrence v. Reed

O’Connell, J.'

This is a bill in equity to compel specific performance of two oral contracts, one alleged to have been made between the respondent and the complainants Joseph St. Lawrence and Germaine St. Lawrence, and the other between the respondent and the complainants Edson Reid and Alice Irene Reid. After a hearing in the superior court a decree was entered dismissing the bill of complaint. From this decree the complainants have appealed and the cause is now before us on such appeal.

The bill alleges that in May 1945 the complainants St. Lawrence and the respondent learned that a certain…