Zoellner v. Carty

SWOFFORD, Chief Judge.

This is an action in equity wherein the appellants (buyers) brought suit against the respondents (sellers) for specific performance of a real estate sales contract involving approximately 800 acres of farmland in Grundy County, Missouri. After the evidence was heard by the court below, a decree was entered wherein the trial court, sitting as a chancellor in equity, found that the real estate contract was a valid and binding contract but denied relief for the reasons of the advanced age of the seller, H. M. Carty, the lack of business experience of his wife, Louella…