Tafoya v. Enciso

This is a suit for specific performance of an oral agreement to lease. The plaintiff, Frank Murillo, claims that on July 24, 1945, defendants made him an oral offer to lease 'the premises in question to him and any partner of his choice, for a term of 5 or 10 years, at plaintiffs’ option, at a rental of $60 per month payable monthly in'advance, if said plaintiff and such partner would purchase the grocery business then being conducted therein by a tenant of defendants’; that in reliance on such offer plaintiff Murillo persuaded plaintiff Tafoya to join him in the undertaking and they bought…