Robbins v. Porter
Idaho Supreme Court
APPEAL from the District Court of Second Judicial District for Nez Perce County. lion. Edgar C. Steele, Judge. Action for specific performance of a contract to convey real estate. Judgment for plaintiff, from which, and an order denying a motion for new trial, defendants appealed.
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APPEAL from the District Court of Second Judicial District for Nez Perce County. lion. Edgar C. Steele, Judge. Action for specific performance of a contract to convey real estate. Judgment for plaintiff, from which, and an order denying a motion for new trial, defendants appealed. The allegations contained in the complaint are insufficient to take the ease out of the statute of frauds, involving as they do the title to the real estate and'the specific performance of a contract for the conveyance of the same from the appellants to the respondent. This contract is not based upon any written…
1Opinion of the CourtStockslager, C. J.
This is an action for the specific performance of a contract to convey land. It is alleged in *741the complaint that in November, 1903, plaintiff and defendant entered into a contract, wherein plaintiff was to procure from Nora Hart, Cora Jackson, her husband, William Jackson. Ellen Winnier and Dunbar Winnier, her husband, deeds to all their rights and equities in certain lands in Asotin county, Washington, for defendant, and for the procuring of said deeds defendant agreed to pay to plaintiff $1,500. It is then alleged that plaintiff procured such deeds, and there was a payment of $250 to…
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