Downing v. Williams

GARDNER, Justice.

From the decree overruling their demurrer to the bill, defendants appeal.

The bill seeks specific performance of a contract relating to personal property— household furnishings, composed in part of articles measurable in monetary values, and in part of treasured belongings, of value to complainants only because of .association — or. as expressed in the bill, hav ing '’a unique value to the complainants,” used and treasured by them, and such articles as “cannot be replaced.”

The equity of the bill rests upon the broad ground — the foundation stone of equity jurisprudence — of…