Owens v. Cunningham

MERRILL, Justice.

This appeal is from a decree denying the complainant specific performance of a contract by which complainant, Thomas H. Owens, agreed to pay $2,850 to two sisters, Mary Riley and Lida Riley, for six lots between East Lake and Center Point in Jefferson County.

Respondents are the heirs of the Riley sisters, and one R. J. Strickland, who had purchased timber on some of the lots and had begun to cut it. The bill of complaint prayed for a temporary injunction against Strickland to prevent his cutting the timber, and for specific performance against the other respondents. A…