Quint-Cities Petroleum Co. v. Maas

In an action for specific performance plaintiff claimed defendants orally agreed to make and deliver to plaintiff a written assignment of defendants’ rights under a contract for purchase of certain real estate, but have since refused to abide by the agreement.

From an adjudication by tbe trial court adverse to defendants, they aloné appeal.

These defendants are husband and wife. On September 29, 1958, they owed plaintiff $9000 secured by a second mortgage on some land in Rock Island County, Illinois.

Later, about March 23, 1960, defendants entered into a contract for purchase of a home in…