Moore v. Adams
Supreme Court of Georgia
Specific performance. Before Judge M. D. Jones. Bibb superior court. May 31, 1921. Elton M. Adams as vendor instituted an action against W. L. Moore, J. P. Peacock, and W. H. Peacock as vendees, for specific performance of a contract for the purchase of land.
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Specific performance. Before Judge M. D. Jones. Bibb superior court. May 31, 1921. Elton M. Adams as vendor instituted an action against W. L. Moore, J. P. Peacock, and W. H. Peacock as vendees, for specific performance of a contract for the purchase of land. The second paragraph of the petition, as amended, was as follows: “ On May 6, 1920, your petitioner sold to W. L. Moore and J. P. and W. H. Peacock a certain lot or parcel of land in the city of Macon, Bibb county, Georgia, under a contract more particularly describing said property and setting forth the terms and conditions of said…
1Opinion of the CourtAtkinson, J.
1. The motion to dismiss the bill of exceptions will be dealt with first. As there was no joint demurrer by the defendants or judgment upon a joint demurrer, but the record specified in the bill of exceptions and brought to this court as such showing that there were separate demurrers by each defendant, and a separate judgment as to each demurrer, the assignment of error in one bill of exceptions by all of the defendants, properly construed, should be held to refer to each of the judgments so rendered upon the separate demurrers. . And as the bill of exceptions contains enough to enable this…
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