Bancroft v. Martin

* Corpus Juris-Cyc. References: Costs, 15 C.J., p. 281, n. 2. Corpus Juris-Cyc References: Vendor and Purchaser, 39Cyc, p. 1190, n. 75; p. 1192, n. 78; p. 1234, n. 6. This is an appeal from a decree dismissing bill of complaint for the specific performance of a contract to convey certain land. The controlling facts, omitting such as are not relevant to the two questions here decided, are, in substance, as follows: Mr. and Mrs. E.L. Martin owned certain land on which they had given an option to a man named Webb, which would expire on the 23d day of May, 1923. During the life of this option,…