Davis v. Alderson

The appellee sued the appellant for the specific performance of a contract for the sale of a tract of land in Bussell county, and the circuit court, on the pleadings and proof, granted the relief prayed. The defendant interposed none of the defenses usually relied on in suits of this nature, but relied solely on the ground that, when the contract was entered into, the appellant (the purchaser) was temporarily insane, and that subsequently the appellee released him from the performance of the contract. The defense is not rested upon fraud, misrepresentation, mistake, accident, unfairness,…