Elmore Real Estate Improvement Co. v. Olson

Mr. Presiding Justice Lewe

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an action for specific performance of a real estate contract and, in the alternative, to recover damages for breach of the contract. On defendants’ motion, the third amended complaint was stricken and the cause dismissed for want of equity.

The third amended complaint alleges in substance that on April 21, 1939, defendant Norman L. Olson, as trustee, was the owner of certain real estate in Lake County, Illinois, known as “Biltmore Country Estates” and “Signal Hill Subdivision”; that defendant Clifford M. Leonard is the owner…