Hicks v. Woodruff

Jim Johnson, Associate Justice.

This is an action by appellants Dave Hicks and Billy D. Hicks, his son, for specific performance of an option to purchase clause contained in a farm lease contract, against appellees Thomas E. Woodruff and Pauline B. Woodruff, his wife, and Dewey Beavers and Naomi Beavers, his wife, in Chicot Chancery Court. After a long drawn out hearing the diligent chancellor concluded in 31 pages of findings that the lease was operative, that the option was ambiguous, that appellants had failed to comply with the terms of the option and that appellants’ complaint should…