Laird v. Rinckey

Plaintiffs-appellants filed a bill inequity to require specific performance of an oral agreement to sell and convey for $100 one acre of land out of a larger parcel which defendants were purchasing on land contract. They ask for a decree ordering the execution and delivery of a warranty deed to the 1 acre, and other relief.

Defendants in their answer set up certain “affirmative defenses,” alleging unfulfilled conditions in the agreement, among them the lack of payment of some $10 on the agreed purchase price, and seek equity’s aid in obtaining payment of a grocery bill that seems to have some…