Cloverland Apartments, Inc. v. Ansley Cloverland Sundries

SPANN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a final decree of the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Alabama, In Equity, granting complainants relief sought for, which included a declaration of the rights of the parties under a written lease agreement, and the effect of the decree was to preclude appellants from pleading the Statute of Frauds because of the doctrine of equitable estoppel, and had the further effect of ordering specific performance of an oral agreement whereby the written lease was extended for a period of five years.

The bill alleges that the complainants entered into a certain…