Mitchell v. White

GARDNER, Chief Justice.

The bill is one seeking specific performance of a contract for the sale of real estate, and is filed by the vendee, Hugh T. Mitchell, against the vendors, Addison White and his wife, Carolyn White. The executory contract of sale was for the gross sum of $25,000, and was duly signed by the parties on April 21, 1943, having been prepared by the defendant Addison White, an attorney. Complainant, the vendee, assumed the payment of the ad valorem property tax for 1943 and an outstanding mortgage of $6,500, the remainder of the purchase money to be paid in cash. A deed with…