Farley v. Vaughn

First—The demurrer in the District Court ought to have been sustained :

*2281st. Because the complaint is a Bill in Equity, to obtain specific performance of an alleged agreement for the purchase of land; yet the complaint nowhere alleges that said agreement, or any note or memorandum thereof expressing the consideration, was in writing; nor does the said complaint set out any such agreement, as having been executed in writing.

The agreement therefore, if simply existing by parol, is void. Stat. Fraud, sec. 8. Wood’s Dig., p. 106.

This statute has received a judicial interpretation at the hands of…