Buchanan v. Johnson

MATHERNE, Judge.

The plaintiffs, buyers, sue for specific performance of a contract to sell 42 acres of land and for damages due to the breach of the contract. The chancellor declared the contract invalid and ordered the specific performance of another contract to sell the same property to James Hoyt Taylor. The plaintiffs appeal that decision. We will refer to the plaintiffs’ written contract as the Buchanan contract and the other written contract as the Taylor contract.

I. THE POSITION OF THE PARTIES

The sellers who signed the Buchanan contract were the then owners of the land, the defendants,…