Gibson v. Brown
Illinois Supreme Court
Appear from the City Court of Mattoon; the Hon. Jas. W. Craig, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery filed in the city court of the city of Mattoon by Charles W. and Phillip W. Brown, appellees, against J. W. Gibson, appellant, to enforce the specific performance of a contract in writing entered into between said parties on February 10, 1904, whereby the appellees agreed to exchange a farm of two hundred and forty acres, situated in Cumberland county, Illinois, the…
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Appear from the City Court of Mattoon; the Hon. Jas. W. Craig, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery filed in the city court of the city of Mattoon by Charles W. and Phillip W. Brown, appellees, against J. W. Gibson, appellant, to enforce the specific performance of a contract in writing entered into between said parties on February 10, 1904, whereby the appellees agreed to exchange a farm of two hundred and forty acres, situated in Cumberland county, Illinois, the value of which was fixed by the contract at $22,000, with the appellant for a stock of hardware then in his possession in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hand
It is contended by appellant that the court erred in decreeing a specific performance of the contract entered into between the appellees and the appellant, as, it is said, at the time the contract was executed the appellees were not the owners of forty acres of said land. It appears that no specific time was fixed by the contract when the transaction was to be closed by the delivery of a deed of the farm to appellant and the delivery of the hardware stock to appellees and the payment to appellees of the difference in value between the value of the farm, as fixed by the contract, (less the…
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