Hall v. Harris
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Macon Circuit Court. — Hon. Andrew Ellison, Judge. (1) To make a contract, the parties thereto must have knowledge thereof, the minds of the parties must meet, and “if from all the evidence in the case it is left in doubt whether the contract was concluded or not a court of equity will not grant specific relief.” Strange v. Crowley, 91 Mo. 295; Taylor v. Williams, 45 Mo. 86; Pomroy’s Spec.
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Appeal from Macon Circuit Court. — Hon. Andrew Ellison, Judge. (1) To make a contract, the parties thereto must have knowledge thereof, the minds of the parties must meet, and “if from all the evidence in the case it is left in doubt whether the contract was concluded or not a court of equity will not grant specific relief.” Strange v. Crowley, 91 Mo. 295; Taylor v. Williams, 45 Mo. 86; Pomroy’s Spec. Perp., sec. 58. (2) Where a parol contract is sought to be enforced it must be established with greater certainty in equity than at law, and there must be no uncertainty as to “when it was made…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, P. J.
This is an appeal from a decree of the Macon circuit court enforcing the specific performance *618of a contract made by David B. Harris in his lifetime with his daughter, Mrs. Sarah Jane Hall, to convey to her twenty acres of land in Macon county, described as the west half of the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section 12, township 57, range 13, in consideration of services rendered by Mrs. Hálito her father in nursing and waiting upon him at intervals from 1885 to 1894.
A jury was impaneled to try “the single issue whether in the lifetime of David B. Harris he contracted to sell…
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