Section 42-7-1 - Contracts for sale of real estate; venue of action.
42-7-1. [Contracts for sale of real estate; venue of action.]
An action to compel the specific performance of a contract of sale of real estate may be brought in the county where the defendants or any of them reside; but if any of the defendants are nonresidents of the state, it shall be brought in the county where the real estate or some part thereof is situated.