2 Where a contract to convey land called for the exercise of personal skill on the part of the purchasers, and also gave them the option to abandon the contract on a contingency, specific performance will not be granted at the suit of the assignees of the purchasers against the seller. Sturgis v. Galindo, 59 Cal. 28. Specific performance will not be enforced of continuous duties involving personal labor and care, as the daily running of street cars along a particular line "at such regular intervals as may be right and proper," whether a contract or charter obligation. McCann v. South Nashville Street R. Co: 2 Teun. Ch. 773. The representative of a deceased partner was not allowed to maintain a bill for the specific performance of a contract to furnish lumber, entered into between his intestate and a firm of which his intestate was a member, since death had terminated the contract by dissolving the firm, and since the contract depended largely on the judgment and business faculty of the deceased partner. Roberts v. Kelsey, 38 Mich. 602. - K.

* Equity will decree specific performance of a bargain for the sale of a good-will of a trade, provided it be connected with any specific stock in trade, or with some valuable secret of trade, (f) or with a well-established stand for business;(g) but not, it is said, a naked bargain for good-will, because equity could not direct the way in which the defendant should proceed to turn the custom of those who had dealt with him, to the plaintiff, (h)

So a lease will be decreed, or the renewal of one, if it has been agreed for, and there remains a valuable portion of the time for which the lease was to run; (i)1 or even if the time has all expired, and there is sufficient reason that the lease should be made and treated by the defendant as of the day when by the bargain it should have been made, the court will decree that it be now made as of that day, and so held by the parties. (J)

Among instances in which equity has decreed specific performance of contracts relating only to chattels, may be mentioned ties who had contracted with the directors of a railway company to run, work, and man their trains, and perform other very considerable duties for them, attempted to compel the company to permit them to continue to perform the services they had engaged for, and the remedy prayed was not granted. The circumstance that the plaintiff's reputation might suffer from the dismissal from the service of the defendants, was said to be no ground for interference, since such injury also might be compensated in damages. See also Pickering v. The Bishop of Ely, 2 Younge & C, Ch. 249, 267; Rolfe v. Rolfe, 15 Sim. 89; Ryan v. Mutual, etc. Assoc. [1893] 1 Ch. 116.

(f) Brvson v. Whitehead, 1 Simons & S. 74.

(g) See Coslake v. Till, 1 Russ. 378.

(h) Baxter v. Connolly, I Jacob & W. 576; Coslake v. Till, 1 Russ. 376, 378.

For a like reason, an agreement for the sale of the business of an attorney cannot be enforced. Bozon v. Farlow, 1 Meriv. 459.

(i) Furnival v. Crew, 3 Atk. 83; Iggulden v. May, 9 Ves. 325; Tritton v. Foote, 2 Bro. Ch. 636; In re Doolan, 3 Drury & W. 442. See Whitlock v. Duffield, Hoffm. Ch. 110. A license to be exercised upon land may be specifically enforced. Nelson v. Bridges, 1 Jur. 753. As to covenants for perpetual renewal, see City of London v. Mitford, 14 Ves. 41; Bayley v. Leominster, 3 Bro. Ch. 529; Evans v. Walshe, 2 Sch. & L. 519; Hackett v. McNamara, Lloyd & G. temp. Plunket, 283; Sheppard v. Doolan, 3 Drury & W. 1; Moore v. Foley, 6 Ves. 237; Brown v. Tighe, 8 Bligh (w. s.), 272; Carr v. Ellison, 20 Wend. 178.

(j) Wilkinson v. Torkington, 2 Younge & C. Ex. 726, an instructive case.

l But where nearly twelve years had elapsed after the expiration of a term of ninety-nine years, renewable forever, before application was made to enforce a renewal, and the tenant hud openly repudiated all obligations and relations as such, and had persistently asserted, since the expiration of the lease, an adverse title in himself as against the reversioner, such relief was refused Myers v. Silljacks, 58 Ind. 319. Where a lessee, by promising to accept and execute a lease of stores for five years, induced the lessor "to break off negotiations with other parties and to adapt them to his use, and thereupon entered into possession and paid rent for two years, but neglected to execute the lease tendered mm, and at the end of the two years refused either to execute, continue to occupy, or pay rent, equity will compel him to execute the lease. Seaman v. Aschermann, 51 Wis/678. In Switzer v. Gardner, 41 Mich. 164, specific performance was granted of a lease which had expired by substitution of a new lease, and it was ordered to be cancelled, it appearing that third parties had acquired an interest in it. [In Floyd v. Storrs, 144 Mass. 56, specific performance was granted of an agreement to renew a lease of a newspaper.] - K.

one for the purchase of an annuity, payable out of the dividends of certain stocks; (k) a contract for the purchase of debts which had been proved under a commission of bankruptcy; (l) and, in * the case of a contract, that all the property of a grantor of an annuity, which he should obtain by will or otherwise, at the death of a third person, during the life of an annuitant, should be charged with the payment of the annuity, and the grantor becoming bankrupt, and the third party having died and left an annuity of larger value in trust for him, this annuity was charged with the payment of the annuity he had granted, (m) Equity has also enforced a contract to keep the banks of a river in repair,(n) a contract to pay the plaintiff a certain annual sum, and another sum for every hundredweight of wire which the defendant should make in the lifetime of the plaintiff; (o) a contract for the sale of a life annuity, (p) and for the sale of shares in a public company, (q)1

(k) Withy v. Cottle, 1 Simons & S. 174. And 800 Pritchard v. Ovey, 1 Jacob & W. 396, where specific performance was decreed of an agreement for the sale of an annuity to be charged on certain lands of the defendant.