Goudeau v. Daigle

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment dismissing appellant’s suit to enforce specific performance of a contract or, in the alternative, to recover damages for the breach thereof, on the ground that the complaint failed to state a cause of action upon which relief could be granted. The sole question for our decision is the correctness of that judgment.

On November 17, 1931, the appellant, L. A. Goudeau, contracted in writing to purchase a tract of land in Louisiana, together with the tools, stock, seed, and feed, from Paul LeBlanc. Appellant agreed to pay $15 of the purchase…