Anderson v. Hall
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. — Hon, Thomas B. Buckner, Judge. (J) -There is no contract in this case that satisfies the Statutes of Frauds. No land is described, nor is the county or the state named. The essentials of a contract involving the Statute of Frauds are...three, as laid down by this court: “First, the parties; second, the subject-matter; third, the consideration or price. Absent any one of these ingredients, there is no contract.”
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Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. — Hon, Thomas B. Buckner, Judge. (J) -There is no contract in this case that satisfies the Statutes of Frauds. No land is described, nor is the county or the state named. The essentials of a contract involving the Statute of Frauds are...three, as laid down by this court: “First, the parties; second, the subject-matter; third, the consideration or price. Absent any one of these ingredients, there is no contract.” Kelley v. Thuey, 143 Mo. 435; Fox v. Courtney, 111 Mo. 147; Johnson v. Fecht, 185 Mo. 335; Ringer v. Holtzclaw, 112 Mo. 519; Boyd v. Paul, 125 M6.…
1Opinion of the Court
ROY, C.
Plaintiff recovered judgment against the defendant for $10,160 as damages for the breach of his alleged contract to purchase and pay for a farm. Defendant has appealed.
The case was here on a former appeal and is reported in 188 S. W. 79.
The plaintiff, in writing, leased to J. H. Lipscomb of Kansas City a farm of about 800 acres at Aullville, Lafayette County, in this State, for a term of three years ending on March 1, 1911. In the same writing she gave Lipscomb an option on the land at $36,000, and gave him also the power to sell the farm any time during the lease, he to have all…
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