Buckner v. Hesson

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City overruling a demurrer to a hill filed by the appellee to compel specific performance of an agreement of the appellant to convey a lot in Baltimore City to Grace Hesson, mother of the appellee, “clear and free from the payment of any ground rent,” which was afterwards conveyed to her by a deed whereby the appellant assumed the payment of the ground rents then on the property.

As alleged by the bill of complaint, about March 11th, 1919, Grace Hesson entered into an agreement in writing with Louis Buchner for the purchase of…