Hastings v. Montgomery

MEREDITH, PRESIDENT:

In a suit to compel specific performance by defendant of her contract to convey to plaintiff a business lot in the town of Montgomery, the circuit court of Fayette County decreed for the plaintiff, and defendant appeals.

When the transactions occurred which gave rise- to this controversy, plaintiff was mayor of the city of Montgomery, and defendant, the widow of J. C. Montgomery, was a resident of, and the owner of considerable property in the city. J. C. Montgomery died October 28, 1918, and devised to defendant the property here involved. On or about February 4, 1919,…