Cornett v. Brashears
Cornett v. Brashears
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
Tlie appellants, as widow and. lieirs of John Cornett, sued the appellee, II. B. Brashears, in .the Circuit Court of Perry county, asking a specific execution of the following contract: “That H. B. Brashears binds himself, my heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, to be levied out of my lands, goods, chattels, tenements, etc. The condition of the above obligation is such that I make unto John Cornett a good and sufficient title to a certain tract or parcel of land lying and in the county of Perry and State of Kentucky, on Owens’ Branch of Big Leatherwood, a fork of the north fork of the Kentucky river, and bounded as follows, to-wit: On the east by John Godsey, on the north by James Brashears, on the south by James II. Singleton. John Cornett pays |25 down, the remainder when due. If he, John Cornett, fails to pay when due, the first payment is to be void and contract forfeited. Then this obligation shall be null and void; otherwise in full force and virtue. II. B. BRASHEARS.
“Witness: E. C. CAMPBELL and
“N. CORNETT.”
And on this contract plaintiffs ask judgment requiring defendant to convey the land by deed to them as ■the heirs of John Cornett., deceased, who had died after
Upon the hearing of the case on the evidence the court canceled the notes and dismissed plaintiffs petition, and adjudged that the paper sued on was only a proposition of appellee to sell to John Cornett the land on specified terms, and that Cornett had failed to comply with the terms of the ■ proposition, and ad
We are inclined to the opinion that the contract sued on is void for the want of certainty, but the court below adjudged the paper to be a mere proposition of appellee to sell the land on specified terms, which were never complied with, and it appears from the evidence that both parties, upon the failure of Cornett lo pay the money when due, abandoned the contract and regarded it as no longer binding on either.
We are of the opinion the judgment of the court below was right..
The judgment of the circuit court is affirmed.
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