Legal Opinion
Hodges v. Kowing
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided April 15, 1889PublishedCited by 43 opinions
Suit for the specific performance of a contract for the purchase of real estate; brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and heard before Fenn, J. Facts found and decree for plaintiff passed, and appeal by the defendants. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBeardsley, J.
On the 17th. day of August, 1887, the defendants entered into the following contract with the plaintiff:—
“ Stratford, August 17th, 1887.
“We agree to purchase of P. H. Hodges his place in Stratford, Conn., containing fifteen acres, more or less, for the sum of nine thousand five hundred dollars; to pay six thousand cash and three thousand five hundred on bond and mortgage for one year; to take title immediately, and possession on the first of January, 1888; and have paid him one hundred dollars on account.
“Edwin W. Rowing, “Eliza Rowing.”
No writing relating to the contract was signed by the…
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