Brooks v. Miller

Lamar; J.

■ This case between the same parties, and as to the same subject-matter, has been before this court in 103 Ga. 712, and 113 Ga. 1008. In those decisions it was adjudicated that the letters were sufficiently definite to make a contract; but the letters, which were necessary to bring the case within the requirements of the statute of frauds, were construed'to make a contract of sale conditioned upon Miller; the purchaser, securing a division of the land between the cotenants within a reasonable time. This was not a ruling on evidence, but a construction of the writing, in which alone…