Butler v. Richardson

This is a bill in equity for specific performance of a contract in a lease by which respondents F. Sturges Richardson and Uzelle deR. Richardson, husband and wife, agreed to sell certain leased real estate to complainants Lila G. Butler and Maude H. Platt who were in possession as lessees thereof. After a hearing on bill, answer and oral proof in the superior court a decree was entered granting such relief and also permanently enjoining respondents from prosecuting at law a pending action of trespass and ejectment involving the real estate in question. From such decree respondents have…