Cooper v. Mayer

HOLLINGSWORTH, Presiding Judge.

Defendants, Jack Mayer and Cora Mayer, husband and wife, have appealed from a decree of the trial court ordering specific performance of their written contract granting plaintiff, Claude Cooper, an option to purchase ten acres of land owned by defendant Cora Mayer in Howell County, Missouri.

On the 19th day of March, 1951, defendants, as lessors, and plaintiff, as lessee, entered into a written agreement wherein defendants, for the consideration therein named, (a) leased to plaintiff the ten-acre tract in controversy for a term of five years ending March 19,…