Points v. Turner

BRINCK, District Judge.

This is an action for specific performance of a contract for the purchase of land. From a judgment and decree for plaintiffs, the defendants, vendees, appeal.

The respondents, Mr. and Mrs. Hart, plaintiffs in the court below, are husband and wife. On November 19, 1919, appellants, having been negotiating for the purchase of 120 acres of land belonging, as hereinafter stated, to the respondents, submitted to respondents a written memorandum of a contract for the sale thereof by respondents to appellants. The writing later was lost and its contents were proved at the trial…