Rice v. Sinclair Refining Co.

STAKELY, Justice.

The question for decision is whether Sinclair Refining Company, complainant in the lower court and appellee here, is entitled to purchase for $9,750 a certain filling station property in Auburn, Lee County, Alabama, under the option provisions of a lease made to it by John Edwin Rice and his wife Gussie Y. Rice, respondents in the lower court and appellants here. The question is presented by the decree of the court in overruling the demurrer of appellants to a bill for specific performance filed by the appellee. The appeal here is from this ruling on demurrer.

The allegations…