Stagg v. Van Sant

SHORES, Justice.

This appeal by Stagg, defendant below, involves the construction of a writing which concerned real estate originally belonging to Van Sant, plaintiff below. Van Sant claims that it is an executory sales contract and that Stagg breached the terms of the contract. Stagg claims that the writing was an unambiguous deed.

The evidence in this case was not transcribed and is not before us. Therefore, we take as true the findings of fact set out in the trial court’s final decree:

1. The original undertakings between Plaintiff and Defendant amounted to a lease by Plaintiff to Defendant…