Orr v. Thomas

The opinion of the court was delivered by

DAWSON, J.:

This action questions the jurisdiction of a district court to render a judgment for an accounting, against a *625nonresident of the county, in an action brought for specific performance of a real-estate contract, when it developed in the course of the trial that specific performance could not be decreed owing to some misunderstanding touching the contract, although pursuant thereto the contracting parties had partially performed it.

The plaintiff’s assignor, C. E. Bradburn, made a bargain with defendant, in writing, to convey to defendant, Ragan…