Edwards v. Friborg

[ 255] This is a suit in equity brought in October, 1944, by the plaintiffs-appellants against the defendant-respondent Friborg for specific performance of a written contract made on February 16, 1938, between the appellant Ethel S. Edwards and respondent Friborg, covering 118 acres of agricultural land in New Madrid county. The contract was written by the appellant W. S. Edwards, an abstracter, farm manager and a stockholder and director of the appellant E. B. Gee Land Company, a corporation at the time but later dissolved in October, 1943. The appellant Ethel S. Edwards, wife of W. S.…