Somerville v. Coppage

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court for Saint Mary’s County. The proceedings were commenced by a bill in equity filed in that Court on December the thirteenth, nineteen hundred and three, by Alexander Somerville against James E. Coppage. The bill prayed that a decree might be passed requiring Coppage to specifically perform an alleged contract for the purchase by him of a farm owned by Somerville. Upon the coming in of an answer, testimony was taken and finally the Circuit Court, after a full hearing, denied the relief sought and dismissed the bill. From that decree the pending appeal…