Reasor v. Marshall

Action to try, determine and quiet title to a tract of 260 acres of described land in Mississippi County, and for specific performance of a contract to sell land. The trial court decreed specific performance and determined and quieted title in plaintiffs.

Plaintiffs, husband and wife, alleged that they entered into a written contract June 1, 1934, whereby they undertook to purchase of W.L. Wright, now deceased, 540 acres of land known as the Modern Woodmen tract in Mississippi County for a consideration of $12,000; that January 29, 1941, W.L. Wright conveyed 280 acres of the tract to…