Johnson v. Harris

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice

Affirming.

The appellees, Mrs. Yirginia Harris, et al., seek the specific performance of a contract of date March 17, 1922, by which she and others agreed to sell to appellant Johnson a farm located in Shelby county at the price of $125.00 per acre. Appellant Johnson declined to carry out the contract, although he admits he entered into it, because, he says, appellee’s title was and is not perfect and that the deed which they tendered did not convey a merchantable title. The boundary of land mentioned in the contract is composed of two tracts, or rather the…