Jett v. DeGaetani

In this appeal of a judgment which ordered specific performance of an oral agreement, we consider whether the judgment is unenforceable because the chancellor ordered the defendants to convey an interest in real property to a person who is not a party to this litigation.

Plaintiff, Peter J. DeGaetani, filed a bill of complaint seeking specific performance of an alleged oral contract. He claimed that the defendants, F. Talmadge Jett and Annie May Jett, husband and wife, agreed to convey a parcel of land with improvements to him and his former wife, Joyce Lynn Jett, who was not a party to this…