White v. White

Defendant-appellants complain of a trial court order directing them to specifically perform under a 1962 contract for the sale of real estate to plaintiff-appellees. Because we find that the statute of limitations, 12 Y.S.A. § 511, bars appellees from enforcing their rights under the contract, we reverse.

In 1962, appellee Murl White and his three sisters, of whom two are appellants and the third not a party to this action, were heirs of equal standing to real estate previously held by their deceased father. Prior to the decree closing their father’s estate, the four siblings entered into an…