Powell v. Hester's Devisees

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Ratliff

— Reversing-

Appellant has prosecuted this appeal from a judgment of the Lincoln circuit court requiring of him specific performance of a contract with appellees to purchase certain real estate in Lincoln county, Ky.

The petition filed in the circuit court by appellees, as plaintiffs below, is in the nature of an agreed state of facts which were submitted to the court for the purpose of determining whether or not on the facts set out the deed executed and tendered appellant passes a good fee-simple title to the land, and whether he should be compelled to…