Clarkin v. Lewis
Clarkin v. Lewis
Opinion of the Court
Truett and Jones contracted with the defendant for the purchase of certain real estate, paying the purchase money and taking an obligation for a conveyance within five days thereafter. The plaintiff sues as assignee of Truett and Jones, and seeks to recover back the purchase money, on the ground that the defendant has failed to perform his part of the contract. The Court below decided against him, holding that the contract had been performed, but afterwards, granted a new trial, and the defendant appeals.
The more important questions arise upon the conveyances themselves, it being contended that neither of them sufficiently describes the property, and that they are not so executed as to pass the title. The evidence in regard to the description is vague and unsatisfactory, and the Court below must upon reflection have considered it insufficient to justify the finding, or at least of such a character as to render a new trial proper. The particular ground upon which the Court acted does not appear; but it is fair to assume this as one of the grounds, and the rule by which we have always been gov.emed in such cases precludes interference on our part.
The position that the conveyances are not sufficient to pass the "title rests upon the ground that the property is a homestead, the ■conveyances being signed by the defendant alone, who is a married man. If the property is a homestead, this, undoubtedly, is a valid objection to the conveyances; but as the case must be retried, it is unnecessary to consider the subject upon the evidence now before us.
The order granting a new trial is affirmed.
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- T. and J. contracted with L. for the purchase of certain real property, paid the purchase money, took from L. an obligation for a deed within five days, and entered into possession. Forty days afterwards, L. tendered a deed, which was objected to by the vendees on account of its form, and subsequently at the request of the vendees another deed was tendered, which was also objected to on the ground that it was not executed by the proper parties; but no objection to either deed was made on account of the time at which it was tendered— Held, that the stipulation as to the time of the execution of the conveyance was waived. A contract by a married man for the sale and conveyance of land is not, if the premises are the homestead of himself and wife, fulfilled by the tender of a conveyance executed by himself alone.