Burkhead v. Farlow

The informal “Option of Purchase” signed by defendants, the parties sought to be charged in this action, embodies the terms of the offer of sale and the names of the vendor and vendee. The adequacy of the description of the land to be conveyed is not in question here, for defendants admit in their further answer that on August 15, 1961, they executed an option to plaintiff to purchase the lands described in the complaint. See Lane v. Coe, 262 N.C. 8, 136 S.E. 2d 269; Gilbert v. Wright, 195 N.C. 165, 141 S.E. 577; Norton v. Smith, 179 N.C. 553, 103 S.E. 14. This case, therefore, involves no…