Brewster Cooperative Growers v. Brewster Orchards Corp.

Plaintiff, a corporation, brought suit against two other corporations, as defendants, seeking to compel the latter specifically to perform the sale provisions of a lease and option agreement wherein the defendants were the lessors and prospective sellers, and the plaintiff was the lessee and prospective purchaser, of certain improved real property together with the equipment thereon. Defendants, appearing separately but by the same counsel, filed their answers in which they each denied the material allegations of the complaint and then, by way of an affirmative defense and cross-complaint,…