Legal Opinion
Pierce v. Watson
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided February 24, 1949No. 6 Div. 820PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SIMPSON, Justice.
Pierce, the defendant in the lower court,, brings this appeal from a decree overruling his demurrer to the bill filed by appellees, Watson and Berkshire Corporation, to require him to perform his written contract whereby he agreed with appellee Watson to sell and convey to a corporation to be-formed (now appellee corporation) an apartment building and lot which Pierce .owned in Birmingham, Alabama.
The contract stipulated for a cash sale and acknowledged receipt by Pierce of $1,000 as earnest money, to be forfeited as liquidated damages in case of breach of the contract by the…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- General Securities Corporation v. WeltonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1931
- Blackburn v. McLaughlinSupreme Court of Alabama · 1918
- Brown v. MungerSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1890
- Tombigbee Valley R. R. v. Fairford Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1908
- Rushton v. McKee & Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1917
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3Cited by9 opinions
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- Cowman v. Allen Monuments, IncorporatedCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1973
- Wesley N. Taylor Co. v. RussellCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1961
- Ex Parte A.B./wildwood Ltd. PartnershipSupreme Court of Alabama · 2000
- Huddleston v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1958
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