Hux v. Raben

In this action for specific performance of an option contract for the sale of 440 acres of land, the circuit court of Hamilton County entered a decree directing the defendants, Denis Raben and Louella Raben, his wife, to execute a deed conveying the property in question to the plaintiffs, John D. Hux and Olga M. Hux, his wife, who are remote assignees of the option contract. The defendants appealed, and the Appellate Court for the Fifth District reversed. (74 Ill. App. 2d 214.) We granted leave to appeal.

The decree of specific performance modified the provisions of the option contract. The…