Thorp v. Smith

This is an action brought in the District Court of the Virgin Islands by the plaintiff William D. Thorp against the defendant Charles Smith for specific performance of a written agreement dated December 22, 1958 for the sale by Smith to Thorp of one acre of land known as Parcel 3D of Estate Abraham’s Fancy, Maho Bay Quarter, St. John, and adjoining on the east Parcel 3F of that Estate which Thorp owns and on which he has his residence. The complaint averred that the sale price of $2,000 had been paid but that Smith had failed to deliver a deed. In his answer Smith admitted the contract of…