Tryce v. Dittus

This is a bill in chancery by the appellants, as partners under the name of “The Missouri Immigration Association,” filed in the circuit court of Kankakee county against appellee, to compel the specific performance of a contract for the exchange of lands owned by defendant in Kankakee county for four hundred acres owned by the complainants in Barton county, Missouri.

The bill alleges that on September 6,1899, the parties entered into a written agreement, which provided that the Missouri Immigration Association agreed to convey to the defendant, by warranty deed, four hundred acres of land in…