Wilson v. Edwards

BILLINGS, Chief Judge.

Suit for specific performance of a contract for the sale and purchase of land. The trial court entered a decree requiring defendant to execute and deliver a deed within fifteen days after plaintiffs paid the purchase price to the clerk of the court. Failure of defendant to deliver the deed would result in a judgment of conveyance. We affirm.

The subject of the lawsuit is 64.4 acres of land located in Mississippi County, Missouri. By a general warranty deed, dated June 30, 1950, this land was conveyed by John and Irene Hodges to Ova and Maud Edwards, defendant’s parents.…