Supreme Judicial Court of Maine May 26, 1879 (Cobb v. Dyer)

Virgin, J.

On September 28, 1867, one J. W. Dyer, husband of the female defendant, agreed in writing with the defendant Wallace — who had been brought up in the Dyer family — to convey to him a certain vacant lot of land described therein, “ as soon as said Wallace shall erect thereon a tenement for his own use.