Blair v. Brownson

OPINION

ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, JR., J.,

delivered the opinion of the court,

in which WILLIAM M. BARKER, C.J., and E. RILEY ANDERSON, JANICE M. HOLDER, and CORNELIA A. CLARK, JJ., joined.

We accepted review of this cause under Rule 11 of the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure in order to determine whether an undelivered writing signed by the seller constituted, under the circumstances, a memorandum of the sale of real property sufficient to satisfy the Statute of Frauds. In the analysis necessary to determine whether a memorandum is sufficient to satisfy the Statute of Frauds, we now hold that the…