McManus v. City of Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, for specific performance of an agreement to purchase a tract of land of the plaintiff. Trial before Holmes, J., who reported the case for the consideration of the full court, the plaintiff to have a decree unless the report disclosed grounds for denying specific performance. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
On October 27,1896, the school committee of the city of Boston, having power, under St. 1895, c. 408, § 2, with the approval of the mayor, to designate for school purposes lands which the board of street commissioners shall thereupon take by purchase or otherwise, passed an order requesting the *153board of street commissioners to take by purchase or otherwise the land which the plaintiff by this bill seeks to compel the city to take and pay for, and this order was subsequently approved by the mayor. When the order was passed, the plaintiff was not the owner of the land. The approval of the order…
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