Pickett v. Boutwell

*20Ill this case we hold that when an optionee at the time of obtaining the option makes to the optioner false statements of material facts calculated to induce the optioner to sign the option, the optionee may not invoke the aid of equity to enforce specific performance.

Ben F. Pickett and Mrs. Ola Pickett, his wife, defendants below and appellants here, executed an option to sell 158 acres of land to Mrs. Alice Wilkerson. The option was dated February 16, 1959; the consideration was $1.00; and the option gave Mrs. Wilkerson sixty days within which to exercise the option by paying the sum of…