Stengel v. Royal Realty Corp.

The appeal in this case is from a decree of the Circuit Court for Frederick County requiring the appellant (defendant below) to carry out his contract for the purchase of a farm located in said county, which contract the appellant had declined to perform upon the ground that the appellee could not convey to him a good and merchantable title.

It appears from an agreed statement of facts that John E. R. Wood, at the time of his death on the 6th day of June, 1918, was seized and possessed of the fee-simple interest in the real estate described in the contract; and that by his last will and…