Roane v. Roane

Mary A. Roane, widow of Leland S. Roane, filed her bill in chancery against Frank Roane, Guy Roane, Earl S. Roane, Grace Sutton and Emma Webster (and their consorts),- brothers and sisters of Leland S. Roane, and Doswell Franklin Roane, devisee of William Clyde Roane, another brother. The object of the suit was to compel specific performance of three contracts alleged to have been made by Grace Sutton, Earl S. Roane and Emma Webster, in which they promised and agreed to sell and convey certain undivided interests in 173 acres of land to complainant and her husband. The lower court entered a…