Bryant v. Booze
Supreme Court of Georgia
Vendor and purchaser. Notice. Principal and agent. Tenants in common. Evidence. Contracts. Sunday. Jury. Practice in the Superior Court. New trial. Before Judge Underwood. Floyd Superior Court.
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Vendor and purchaser. Notice. Principal and agent. Tenants in common. Evidence. Contracts. Sunday. Jury. Practice in the Superior Court. New trial. Before Judge Underwood. Floyd Superior Court. January Term, 1875. It is only necessary to a clear understanding of this case to report the testimony, introduced upon the trial, tending to show notice to Bryant and Briscoe, prior to their purchase, of the acceptance by Booze of the proposition made to him, in reference to the sale of the land, and the motion for a new trial. Willis Bobo testified, in brief, as follows: Eoberts had been…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Judge.
Booze filed a bill against Bryant and Briscoe to compel them to convey to him a certain tract of land. He based his right on a contract made by letter, which he alleged he had *445concluded for the purchase of the land, and of which, he alleged, they had notice when they purchased and took a conveyance from the same party. Notice was denied, and, more, over his contract was assailed as invalid because made on Sunday. The jury found for him, and the court decreed the conveyance prayed for, on condition of his paying into the clerk’s office the amount fixed by his contract as…
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