3615 Corporation v. New York Life Insurance Co. v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, Con-Grand, Ltd., Intervenor-Appellee

This is a suit by the purchaser, 3615 Corporation, a Missouri corporation, against the vendor, New York Life Insurance Co., a New York corporation, for the specific performance of a contract for the sale of property known as the Continental Building located in midtown St. Louis. The building had been substantially damaged during the executory interval of the contract, and purchaser seeks to compel vendor to repair the damage and to convey the building, or to convey the building in its damaged condition and pay purchaser the cost of repair. The district court, 550 F.Supp. 1035, denied this…