Lucey v. Shelton

This case involves a purported option agreement for the purchase of a parcel of improved real estate. The cause was assigned to a master in chancery and, after extensive proofs were heard, the master found that both the complaint and the counterclaim should be dismissed for want of equity and the plaintiffs’ prayer for specific performance of the purported option agreement denied. The master’s report made several specific findings of fact, all of which, in appropriate proceedings before the chancellor, were upheld by the chancellor. A freehold being involved, an appeal was brought directly to…