Specific Performance Denial and Third-Party Liability for Knowing Interference with Contract of Sale

An individual entered into an agreement to sell land, but subsequently transferred the property to a third party who was aware of the prior sale agreement. The initial promisee sought to enforce the agreement against the current owner. The court held that the third party, by accepting the transfer despite knowledge of the prior contract of sale, engaged in a fault constituting a civil wrong, allowing the initial promisee to seek damages against the party who breached the contract by selling to a third party, as well as against the third-party transferee for liability arising from their complicity in the breach.