Evans v. Buchanan

This is an appeal by the administrators of the estate. of John C. Niner from a decree of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City directing the administrators to endorse and deliver to Beth Lee Buchanan and George M. Downs, the appellees, all the outstanding stock of The J. C. Niner Company, a Maryland corporation. The decree was entered in a suit filed by the appellees against George A. Evans and Daisy V. Niner, the said administrators, for the specific performance of an alleged oral contract entered into by them with John C. Niner in 1927.

The facts in the case are, for the most part,…