Haydon v. Stamas

OPINION

Justice SUTTELL,

for the Court.

The defendants, Leon G. Stamas and his son, Leon Stamas, appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court striking their notice of Us pendens on real estate owned by the plaintiff, Barbara B. Haydon, and rejecting their counterclaims for specific performance and breach of contract. 1 At the center of this contract dispute is the viability of an oral modification purportedly extending the time in which the defendants could exercise an option to purchase a tract of land from the plaintiff. This case came before the Supreme Court for oral argument pursuant to an…