Painter v. Fletcher

When the court found all the facts in this case to be as the plaintiff contends, and found the affirmative defenses of the answer to be untrue, no course was open but to decree specific performance. The evidence fully supports the judgment. Read in the light of the situation and circumstances of the parties, which may always be considered, the description was sufficiently definite and the contract did not need reformation ; therefore, error could not be committed in reforming it. If, as the defendants contend, the contract gave the vendee an option, it was not necessary that the vendee’s wife…