Stein v. Reising

This action involves the construction and meaning of this clause in a lease: "Lessee will be given first option to purchase property within year lease if in effect at a price of $8,000.00." The precise question upon this appeal by the lessor is whether the trial court should have decreed specific performance of the clause as an absolute and unconditional option and compelled a conveyance of the property to the lessee.

Sophie Reising owned the two and one half story brick building at 2655 Shenandoah Avenue in St. Louis. For more than twenty years Mrs. Reising and her husband operated a grocery…