Ryan v. Evans

Appellee, as plaintiff, sued to enforce specific performance of a written contract for the exchange of lands, and recovered a judgment decreeing that, upon conveyance of his lands to defendant (appellant), he should receive from defendant a deed for an undivided one-half of the lands which defendant had agreed to convey to him, and should recover $9,412.50 “as compensation” because of the inability of defendant to convey the other half interest in the lands, which belonged to his wife. Overruling a demurrer to each paragraph of the complaint and stating an erroneous conclusion of law upon the…