Griel v. Lomax
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. John P. Hubbard. This action was brought by Tennent Lomax, P. C. Massie, and T. S. Sayre, against Jacob Griel, to recover $100, with interest, which the plaintiffs had paid to the defendant on a purchase of his interest in a lot or parcel of land in the town of Sheffield; and was commenced on the 21st June, 1887. The contract between the parties, as reduced to writing, was dated Montgomery, Jan. 6th, 1887,…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. John P. Hubbard. This action was brought by Tennent Lomax, P. C. Massie, and T. S. Sayre, against Jacob Griel, to recover $100, with interest, which the plaintiffs had paid to the defendant on a purchase of his interest in a lot or parcel of land in the town of Sheffield; and was commenced on the 21st June, 1887. The contract between the parties, as reduced to writing, was dated Montgomery, Jan. 6th, 1887, signed by said Griel only, and in these words: “For and.in consideration of $100 to me in hand paid, by Patrick Massie, T.…
1Opinion of the CourtSomerville, J.
The right acquired by a vendee of land under a valid executory contract of purchase, is a valuable legal right, capable of being sold and assigned to a subvendee ; and such assignment will constitute a sufficient consideration to support a promise on the part of the purchaser to pay money. It is nothing more than the familiar case of an assignment of a contract to purchase land. — 2 Addison Contr. (Morgan’s Amer. Ed.), § 532; Meyer v. Mitchell, 75 Ala. 475; 1 Amer. & Eng. Encyc. Law, pp. 826-27, 842-43.
The interest acquired in the land by Griel, under the contract of purchase by Moses, -was…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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