Eddington v. Turner

Rodney, Judge,

delivering the opinion of the court:

The foregoing facts give rise to three questions so intimately blended together that it is difficult to keep them separate, for in some particulars they impinge closely on each other, and yet contain elements of dissimilarity. These questions are:(1) Does the granting of the option to purchase, made after the execution of the will and the subsequent exercise of the option after the death of the optionor, operate as an equitable conversion of the property relating back to the date of the option, so that the proceeds of sale would pass *414to the…