Finney v. Blalock

Candler, Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) In Bryant v. Booze, 55 Ga. 438, this court said: “If, after notice that another has made a contract for the purchase of land, a third person cuts in, buys it, and takes a conveyance, such person stands in the place of his vendor, and a court of equity, if it would decree a specific performance of the contract against the latter, will render a like decree against the former.” And the ruling made in that case was followed in Linder v. Whitehead, 116 Ga. 206 (42 S. E. 358), and Grooms v. Grooms, 141 Ga. 478 (81 S. E. 210). In the present…