Keepers v. Yocum
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from Johnson district court. STATEMENT. This is an appeal from a judgment decreeing the specific performance of a written contract for the exchange of property.
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Appeal from Johnson district court. STATEMENT. This is an appeal from a judgment decreeing the specific performance of a written contract for the exchange of property. The court made very full and ■complete findings of fact, from which it appears that the appellee was, on the 9th day of June, 1908, the equitable owner and in the peaceable possession of a tract of land in Vernon county, Missouri, the legal title of which stood in the name of Florence N. Briggs, his bookkeeper. At the same time the appellants were the holders of a certain bond for a deed, entitling them to -a conveyance of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Porter, J.:
The, first contention is that the contract is void under the statute of frauds, because the Missouri land is not more definitely described in the memorandum. The language of the contract is as follows: “J. C. Keepers agrees to deed or cause to deed his 114 a. in Vernon county, Missouri, subject to encumbrance of $2500 and accrued interest.” The appellants rely upon the case of Hampe v. Sage, 82 Kan. 728, where the land was described as “seven hundred and sixty acres located in Pottawatomie county, Oklahoma” (p. 729), and a petition declaring…
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