| New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 636 pages
...law — and has no claim to the protection of this court. Dungan v. Miller, 218 SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE. 1 . A delay of fifteen years in calling for the specific...full proof, and a closer scrutiny of the evidence. Eyre v. Eyre, 102 2. Part performance will take a contract out of the statute of frauds, when it has... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 804 pages
...v. Brown, 41 Mich. 298 (2 NW 30); 26 Am. & Eng. Enc. Law (2d Ed.), P- 28, and cases cited. On a bill for the specific performance of a parol contract for the conveyance of land, the contract must not only be clearly proved, but it must be substantially the same as set forth in... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 600 pages
...the Statute of Frauds, and entitle tho vendee to a specific performance of the agreement. In a bill for the specific performance of a parol contract for the conveyance of land, the general facts relied npon, showing a part performance as a ground for taking the case out of tho... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 782 pages
...\VhelpU-y, 62 Id. 15; Ta.fi v. Taft, 73 Id. 502. 2. The failure of an infant to file a bill to enforce the specific performance of a parol contract for the conveyance of land to her father, which he fully performed in his life-time, will not prevent her doing so after arriving... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 648 pages
...Co. r . McDonell & Cobb, for complainant. Green & Scofield, for defendant. COOIEY, J. This is a suit for the specific performance of a parol contract for the conveyance of lands, which, having been originally made with other parties, has come to the complainant by assignment.... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1867 - 634 pages
...no evidence to sustain the finding of the referee. II. A court of equity has not the power to decree the specific performance of a parol contract for the conveyance of land, where the evidence presents a fair question of doubt as to whether the contract sought to be enforced... | |
| Law - 1869 - 820 pages
...CONTRACT. See Railroad. Specific Performance — Laches. — A delay of fifteen years in calling tor the specific performance of a parol contract for the...performance, and will render necessary more strict and fuller proof, and a closer scrutiny of the evidence: Eyre v. Eyre and Others, 4 CE Green. Part performance... | |
| Austin Abbott - Civil procedure - 1869 - 600 pages
...finding of the referee as to the terms of the contract alleged ; and that a court of equity cannot decree the specific performance of a parol contract for the conveyance of land where the evidence presents a fair question of doubt as to whether the contract sought to be enforced... | |
| Michigan. Court of Chancery, Ebenezer Burke Harrington - Court rules - 1872 - 504 pages
...performance, what it must set forth: Evidence not warranted by allegations must be disregarded. In a bill for the specific performance of a parol contract for the conveyance of land, the general facts relied upon showing a part performance as a ground for taking the case out of the... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 1046 pages
...respondent. S. <£• O. Kipp, for McGrann and another, appellants. VANDERBUKGH, J. This action is for the specific performance of a parol contract for the conveyance of land, under which the plaintiff, it is alleged, has entered and made certain improvements, involving large... | |
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