The essence of defendant's procedural claim is that defendant was not given sufficient time to prepare and present its defense. It first argues that an action for specific performance is "outside the bounds" of an action for an injunction brought under V.R.C.P. 65, and more properly subject to V.R.C.P. 12(a), which provides a defendant with at least twenty days to file an answer to a complaint. In Brower v. Hill, 133 Vt. 599, 604, 349 A.2d 901, 905 (1975), this Court noted that an order for specific performance is "in effect" a mandatory injunction. Specific performance by injunction is appropriate "`if this is the only practical mode of enforcement which its terms permit.'"
However, there are grounds for denying specific performance, even in the presence of a written contract, in that the granting of this particular kind of relief may produce an unsupportably inequitable result. Brower v. Hill, 133 Vt. 599, 602, 349 A.2d 901 (1975). Where, as here, there is no such writing, the proponent of specific performance has a double burden.