Sinclair Refining Co. v. Martin

Sinclair Refining Company, here called Sinclair, brought this suit against Mrs. Lula May Martin and husband, D. D. Martin, to enforce specific performance of an option to purchase a service station and lot on Gallatin Road, Davidson County, Tennessee, fully described in the bill.

By answer, defendants set up the defenses that: (1) the lease, which contained the option to purchase, was *68signed by Mrs. Lula May Martin, in -whom title to tbe land was vested, without knowing that the option to purchase clause was in the lease contract; (2) her signature was procured to this contract in a fraudulent…