Tolchester Beach Improvement Co. v. Boyd

'This is an appeal from a decree dismissing the bill of complaint of the appellant for specific performance of a contract of purchase of wharf property on the Sassafras River at Eredericktown in Cecil County.

The history of the transaction, briefly, is as follows:

The appellees, Charles P. Boyd and H. M. Coale, residents of the State of Pennsylvania, were members of a yachting club called “Tockwogh Club,” and desired to- purchase for the uses of the members of said club suitable property on the Sassafras River.

Mr. Coale testified that he and a group- of his friends were looking for a location;…