Lindgren v. Van Fleet

GIBLIN, VINCENT C., Associate Judge.

The chancellor below, by the final decree from which these appeals have been prosecuted,1 required the specific enforcement of an oral contract entered into in the early part of 1950 by which A. W. Lindgren (who owned the five-acre tract of land involved in this litigation) and Anna Belle Lindgren, his wife (who had an inchoate dower interest) agreed to convey the tract •to Waller Van Fleet and Mildred Irene Van Fleet, his wife, for $1,200.

At the time the oral contract was entered into Van Fleet paid to Lindgren a “binder” of $222.75. The payment was…