Case Name: Tainter v. Brockway
Court: Connecticut Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1773
Citations: 1 Root 59
Docket Number: 
Parties: Tainter v. Brockway.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 59–60

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.