Cities Service Oil Co. v. Viering

This is an appeal from a decree entered by the circuit court of Whiteside County in favor of appellee, Cities Service Oil Company, a corporation, in a suit filed by it against E. F. Viering, the appellant, to compel the conveyance of certain real estate in the city of Rock Falls in that county, upon which said real estate it was alleged he had given appellee a legal option to purchase contained in a lease of the premises.

The complaint alleged that defendant was, and is, the owner of the property; that on May 2, 1939, plaintiff and defendant entered into a written agreement whereby the…