Trotter v. Lewis

This suit was brought by Joseph P. Lewis, a laundryman, to obtain specific performance of a contract executed on March 1, 1939, in which Stance J. Trotter, a real estate dealer, agreed (1) to lease him lots 1 and 2 in Block O (“office building to south not included in this lease”) in Fairmont Heights, Prince George’s County, for the term of five years for rent of $20 per month; (2) to give him during the term of the lease “an option on sale of said premises * * * and buildings thereon, price not to exceed $2,500, with interest not exceed 6% per annum”; and (3) to permit him to build and do…