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Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Tainter v. Brockway.
    A parol promise to convey land in consideration of a promise ta pay for them is void by the statute, etc.
    Action upon a parol contract, in which the defendant in consideration of £600 which the plaintiff promised to pay him for a certain farm, and of $3 received as earnest money; the defendant agreed and promised to convey to her by deed, etc. his said farm, etc. describes it, and then assigns a breach. The defendant pleads the Statute against Erauds and Perjuries, and avers said contract was by parol, etc.
   Judgment — Plea sufficient. This is an executory contract, for the sale of lands and tlie payment of the $3 earnest, is not an execution of it, on one part.