Sikes v. Sims

Duckworth, Chief Justice.

This is a suit for specific performance of a contract for the sale of real property purchased at an auction sale, in which the petitioner paid $2,000 on the purchase price, the balance to be paid at closing; received the key to the dwelling thereon and went into possession; and thereafter he tendered the balance of the purchase money, and the sellers repudiated the sale and refused to make him a deed to the property. Ho further alleges in the petition that he unlocked the dwelling after receiving the key, entered the house, and at the request of one of the defendants…