Bonnet v. Babbage

The principal question which arises in this case is whether the defendant should be required to perform the contract referred to in the complaint, as far as he is able, with an allowance to the plaintiffs out of the purchase money for the value of the inchoate right of dower belonging to the defendant’s wife. It is an elementary rule of law that courts of equity will not specifically enforce any contract unless it be complete and certain. It has been held, but not in this state, that where the wife did not sign the land contract with her husband and she refused to join in the deed, that the…