Gage v. Leslie

*400The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

G. R. Gage sued^J. H. Leslie and his wife, asking the specific performance of a written contract for the exchange of real estate. He recovered judgment and the defendants appeal.

The property which by the terms of the contract the defendants were to convey was their homestead. They contend that although Mrs. Leslie signed the contract, after doing so she placed it in the hands of a real-estate broker, who was acting for all the parties, with instructions not to deliver it unless a specified clause was stricken out; that in violation of his…