Reed v. Foulks

HOGAN, Judge.

In this case involving the doctrine of equitable conversion by contract, the trial court has effected specific performance of a contract to sell real property by granting mandatory injunctive relief. Defendant Foulks appeals. The trial court reached a correct result, and we affirm.

The realty which the plaintiffs agreed to buy is a tract of land — “[t]wo 50-foot lots by a hundred and some deep” — which lies along the west bank of Current River near Doniphan, in Ripley County. The defendant paid $5,000 for the property. After he bought the place, he installed a septic tank, dug a…