Gosse v. Jones

This was a bill in equity to compel the specific performance of an alleged parol contract for the sale of a lot of land in Bureau county.

It is an inflexible rule of this court, and the approved doctrine of all courts, in such cases, clear and satisfactory proof of the contract must be produced. Such applications addressed to a court of equity, whether the contract be in writing or in parol, are addressed to the sound legal discretion of the court, and it is not a matter of course that it will be decreed because a legal contract is shown to exist. If the contract be vague and uncertain, or the…