Pickman v. Hays
Pickman v. Hays
Opinion of the Court
The defendants, the sellers, appeal from a final decree of a Probate Court (G. L. c. 215 § 6) granting the plaintiffs, the buyers, specific performance of a written agreement for the purchase and sale of “ [a] parcel of land on and off Goss Hill Road . . . being about two hundred (200) acres in the aggregate and being [with stated exceptions] all the land conveyed” to the defendants by a deed which contained certain descriptions by metes and bounds (see Powell v. Clark, 5 Mass. 355, 356-357 [1809]). Compare Ratshesky v. Piscopo, 239 Mass. 180, 187 [1921]). The purchase price was to be $250 per acre, with “ [t]he precise acreage to be conveyed . . . [to] be determined by a survey to be made at the joint expense of the parties . . . and the final price ... [to] be determined with reference to said survey.” See Dickinson v. Lee, 106 Mass. 557, 559 (1871); Maxwell v. Willingham, 101 Ga. 55, 59 (1897); Sheindelman v.
Decree affirmed.
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