Lucey v. Hero International Corp.

This case involves a bill for specific performance of an option to purchase land. The defendant appeals from an interlocutory decree confirming the master’s report and from a final decree ordering it to convey certain land to the plaintiff. The evidence is not reported.

We summarize the facts as found by the master. The defendant was the owner of a large tract of land in Richmond. On February 15, 1969, a clergyman, Father John P. Lucey (the plaintiff), offered to purchase five acres of the defendant’s land and the buildings thereon for $65,000, and paid a broker $1,000 as a deposit. The broker…