Legal Opinion

Edwards v. French

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided June 10, 1924PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Suit for specific performance of contract for the sale and exchange of land. The petition seeks to correct the description in the contract for mutual mistake in describing the plaintiff's farm, and to have specific performance thereof as corrected. The contract was for the sale of plaintiff's farm, consisting of 211 acres in Livingston County, to defendant, for $175 per acre, fifty acres of land in Texas to be taken by plaintiff at $14,000, and the balance, $15,750, to be paid in cash December 1, 1920, both tracts to be subject to certain incumbrances thereon.

The answer, besides a general…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Knauss v. Gottfried Krueger Brewing Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1894
  2. Childs v. PtomeyMontana Supreme Court · 1896
  3. Clark v. AllenCalifornia Supreme Court · 1899
  4. DeSteiger v. HollingtonMissouri Court of Appeals · 1885
  5. Montross v. EddyMichigan Supreme Court · 1892

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3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Kelley v. Illinois Central Railroad CompanySupreme Court of Missouri · 1943
  2. State Ex Rel. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. v. DauesSupreme Court of Missouri · 1927
  3. Cox v. BryantSupreme Court of Missouri · 1961

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