Berlin v. Jacobs

BUFORD, J.:

We think that Sec. 708.07 Fla. Statutes, 1941, is applicable and controls in this case. Except for this statute it is quite evident that in equity and good conscience Mrs. Gertrude Berlin should be required to perform the contract, but Sec. 708.07 supra, specifically provides that “No agreement for the sale or conveyance of real property or for relinquishment of dower shall be specifically enforced unless it be executed and acknowledged in the form prescribed for conveyance of her real property and for relinquishment of dower.”

Chapter 21932, Acts of 1943, in nowise, in our opinion,…