Looney v. Trent Trust Co.

Citations

• 23 Haw. 208
• 1916 Haw. LEXIS 26

Syllabus

<p>Specific Performance — suit against executor — 'parties.</p> <p>Under Chap. 15.9, R. L., where a testator, during bis lifetime, sold to plaintiff certain real estate and received the full purchase price thereof and executed a written agreement wherein he promised to make, execute and deliver to the plaintiff a deed for such real estate, but died before doing so, a suit may be maintained for specific performance of such written contract against the executor of testator’s estate without joining the heirs or devisees of the testator.</p>