Staples v. Mullen

This is a suit in equity to compel the specific performance by the defendant of his written agreement with the plaintiff to purchase certain real estate. A decree was entered in the Superior Court ordering such performance, and, the evidence having been taken by a commissioner, the defendant appealed. The appeal brings before us all questions of fact and law raised at the trial, but as no findings of fact or rulings of law were made by the trial court, the only question now open is whether upon all the evidence the decree was plainly wrong. Jennings v. Demmon, 194 Mass. 108. By sealed…