Grooms v. Williams

William Henry Grooms and his wife filed a bill praying the court to reform a contract for the purchase by them of one hundred twenty-one acres of a one hundred twenty-five acre tract of land in Montgomery County from Edward Williams and his wife, the appellees, and to compel specific performance of the contract as reformed. The chancellor sustained a demurrer to the bill because it appeared to him from the bill there had been “no meeting of the minds with respect to the subject real estate,” and the Groomses appealed.

The Groomses earlier had filed a bill for specific performance of the…