Clark v. Stanhope
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 77 — Action for Breach of Contract APPEAL FROM FAYETTE CIRCUIT COURT. JUDGMENT FOR PLAINTIFF AND DEFENDANTS APPEAL. This case is: H. H. Stanhope, knowing all the parties and all the facts, knew that the land in the petition described, belonged jointly to Lydia S. Clark and Metta Blackford, an infant, of whom Ollie.
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Case 77 — Action for Breach of Contract APPEAL FROM FAYETTE CIRCUIT COURT. JUDGMENT FOR PLAINTIFF AND DEFENDANTS APPEAL. This case is: H. H. Stanhope, knowing all the parties and all the facts, knew that the land in the petition described, belonged jointly to Lydia S. Clark and Metta Blackford, an infant, of whom Ollie. Blackford was guardian; that there was pending in the Jessamine Circuit Court an action to sell said land under the direction of that court; that no title could be made to the whole of that land except under a decree of that court and after a public sale by the officer of that…
1Opinion of the Court
*523Opinion op tile court by
JUDGE HOBSON
Reversing.
Appellant, Mrs. Lida Clark and ber sister, Metta Black-ford, who was an infant, owned a farm of ninety-eight acres in Jessamine county. Their mother, Mrs. Ollie Blackford, was the guardian of the infant, Metta. On October 31, 1896, a written contract was made between Mrs. Ollie Blackford, as guardian for Metta Blackford, and' Mrs. Clark and her husband, of the one part, and H. H. Stan-hope, the appellee, of the other part, by which they sold him the farm for $2,500; one-third to be paid in cash when the deed was made, and the balance in one and…
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