Lasher v. Gardner

This was a hill by appellant, to compel specific performance ■ of a contract alleged to have been entered into between appellee Jefferson Gardner, and appellant, for the exchange of certain real estate owned by them, severally, in the city of Chicago. At the filing of the bill, the south fifty feet of th(3Gardner tract had been conveyed to John D. Benedict and J. Wright Gardner, and they, with Jefferson Gardner, were-made defendants. The defendants answered, admitting the-ownership of Jefferson Gardner of the premises in question, but denied the making of the contract, and pleaded the Statute…