Humble Oil & Refining Company v. Lennon

This is a bill in equity for specific performance of an option to purchase contained in a lease. The cause is here on the respondents’ appeal from a final decree of the superior court granting the relief prayed for. The respondents filed fourteen reasons of appeal but in their brief they have compressed them into four hereinafter set forth and discussed.

The facts are undisputed. On August 18, 1936 respondents as lessors entered into a written indenture of lease with Colonial Beacon Oil Company as lessee of certain premises on the westerly side of York avenue between Robinson and Central…