Upton v. Archer
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Fifth District, San Joaquin County. The Court below dismissed the complaint, and the plaintiff appealed. The other facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Rhodes, C. J.:
The plaintiff being the owner of the tracts of land described in the complaint, offered to sell the same to two certain persons, and before they had accepted the offer, he signed and acknowledged an instrument, in form a deed, sufficient to convey the lands, except that a blank was left for the insertion of the names of the proposed purchasers as the grantees. He left this instrument with Webster, and gave him verbal directions to fill the blank with the names of the proposed purchasers if they accepted the offer. During the absence of the plaintiff, Webster sold…
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