WINSTANLEY v. CHAPMAN


325 Mass. 130 (1949)

89 N.E.2d 506

CONSTANCE R. WINSTANLEY & another vs. WILLIAM J. CHAPMAN & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

December 23, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H.H. Davis, for the defendants.

E.A. Egan, (J.J. Geogan with him,) for the plaintiffs.

Present: QUA, C.J., LUMMUS, RONAN, & WILKINS, JJ.


LUMMUS, J.

The defendants are husband and wife, and have since 1935 owned a house and land in Whitman. The plaintiffs' bill in equity sets forth that in 1940 the defendants orally agreed with the plaintiffs that if the plaintiffs would move their nursing and rest home into the defendants' house, the latter would sell the premises to the plaintiffs for $6,500 at any time during the occupancy by the plaintiffs of the premises, and that the rent of $50 a month paid by...

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