Thistle Mills Co. v. Bone

This is an appeal from a decree of the-Circuit Court for Baltimore County, dismissing the bill of the appellant (a corporation), which was filed in that Court to have enforced the specific performance of a contract which the appellant alleged it had made with the appellee, John M. Bone, for the sale to it by the said Bone of certain real property referrred to in the bill. The alleged contract was evidenced by a written paper which was set out in the appellant’s bill and is as follows:

Ellicott City, Md., 18 — , ’99.

Received of Thistle Mills Company, through Robert P. Deal, check for two…