Farmer v. Sellers
Farmer v. Sellers
Opinion of the Court
The bill in this case is for the specific performance of a contract. Motion avus made by the respondent to dismiss the bill for Avant of equity,
The appellant's contention is that the contract sought to be specifically enforced involved nothing more than a promise on. his part to accept in payment and discharge of his debt against the appellee a smaller sum than was due him, and that therefore it is a nuclwm pactum. In this construction of the contract he is mistaken. It-is, in substance and effect, a contract of purchase of the land of which the appellant had become owner, having acquired title to the same through the execution sale, and the agreement to satisfy the judgment constituted Only a part of the contract of purchase. Suppose the contract had been for the sale and purchase of some other tract of land o'f the defendant for the price stipulated in the present contract, with additional agreement as to the satisfaction of the judgment held against the appellee,, could there then have been any doubt as to appellee’s right to a specific performance? We "are unable to see. any difference between the two cases. There was no error in overruling the motion to dismiss the bill for want-of equity, and the decree must be affirmed.'
Affirmed.
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