Stringer v. Reed

FLANIGAN, Judge.

This is an action for specific performance of a contract for the purchase of a 260-acre tract of land in Texas County, Missouri. Plaintiffs Richard W. Stringer and Mary Frances Stringer, husband and wife, are the buyers and defendants Wilford V. Reed and Bernice Reed are the sellers.

The petition sought, alternatively, that defendants be directed to convey the title to plaintiffs or that the court decree title to be in plaintiffs, upon payment of the purchase price.

On April 4, 1969, plaintiffs and defendants executed a written agreement entitled “Farm Lease” and referred to in…