Bradley v. Howell

The contract in this case is so crudely and obscurely drawn, is so beset with ambiguities and uncertainties, in respect to the determinative issue here involved, that we cannot rest with confidence upon an interpretation in favor of either of the parties on that issue. The burden was upon appellant, as the complainant in the trial court, to establish his right to relief both on the facts and the law. He failed to convince the chancellor that the contract was such as to entitle him to relief, and, since the ambiguities and uncertainties of the contract are such that we cannot say with the…