Allison v. MacKey

WILBUR K. MILLER, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, Ethel K. Allison, sued Crandal Mackey and Mary Mackey, his wife, in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for specific performance of a contract to sell and convey real estate. Mrs. Mackey had not signed the contract. Her husband, who had title to the realty in question, moved to dismiss the complaint on the ground “ * * * that the Court has no power or jurisdiction to decree specific performance herein on the part of either of the defendants who are husband and wife, where the wife refuses to consent to the sale of the…