Kopeyka v. Woodstrom

This is a bill for specific performance of a contract to convey real estate, brought by the assignee of the vendee therein. The superior court of Cook county entered a decree awarding specific performance. The vendors have appealed.

The facts as found by the master in chancery, whose finding was sustained by the chancellor, are, that Mathilda Woodstrom and John Woodstrom, her husband, owned the real estate in question, subject to a mortgage of $4500. On January 22, 1920, she and her husband signed an agreement to convey the property to Agnes R. Ward or her assignee for the sum of $14,000. The…