Trowbridge v. Addoms
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to the District Court of Arapahoe County. This is a suit to enforce specific performance of a contract in relation to certain real property.
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Error to the District Court of Arapahoe County. This is a suit to enforce specific performance of a contract in relation to certain real property. From the pleadings and agreed statement of facts upon which the cause was submitted to the court below, it appears that on the 6th day of February, 1893, the plaintiffs, Trowbridge and Hinckley, and the defendant Addoms, entered into a written contract whereby plaintiffs agreed to sell and convey, by warranty deed, a good and sufficient title to lots 7 and 8, in block 142, in the east division of the city of Denver, subject only to a certain deed…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Goddard
The errors assigned upon this record present for our consideration the correctness of the action of the court below in rejecting the record of the deed in question, and in granting defendant’s motion for nonsuit. The grounds upon which the objection to the introduction of the record were based were the want of a revenue stamp and the defective acknowledgment of the deed. In argument a further ground is relied on, to wit, the failure to lay the proper foundation for the introduction of the record, required by section 447, Mills’ Ann' Stats. The first ground of the objection, based upon the…
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