Andrew v. Babcock
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit for specific performance of an agreement to purchase land,- brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County, and heard before Thayer, J. Facts found, and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant. The case is fully stated in tbe opinion. 1. It is an elementary principle that a party, in order to avail himself of the liberal relief given by a court of equity, must show that he has no adequate remedy at law.
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Suit for specific performance of an agreement to purchase land,- brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County, and heard before Thayer, J. Facts found, and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant. The case is fully stated in tbe opinion. 1. It is an elementary principle that a party, in order to avail himself of the liberal relief given by a court of equity, must show that he has no adequate remedy at law. That a vendee may come into a court of equity and enforce a contract of this nature has been settled by a long line of decisions, too numerous to mention here.…
1Opinion of the CourtFeNN, J.
The plaintiff, being the owner, subject to various liens and incumbrances, of a tract of land, with buildings suitable for business purposes thereon, on August 22d, 1891, agreed with the defendant, by parol, to sell the same to him for three thousand dollars, and to give him a good and perfect title to the same, free from all incumbrances whatsoever, within a reasonable time; and the defendant agreed to purchase the property for said sum, to pay five hundred dollars down as soon as the deed was ready, and to mortgage-the premises back to the plaintiff for twenty-five hundred dollars ; making…
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