Case Name: Edwards v. Trustees of the Baptist Church
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1917-05-16
Citations: 147 Ga. 15
Docket Number: 
Parties: Edwards v. Trustees of the Baptist Church.
Judges: All the Justices concur.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 147
Pages: 15–15

Head Matter:
Edwards v. Trustees of the Baptist Church.
May 16, 1917.
Petition for specific performance. Before Judge Park. Baldwin superior court. February 16, 1916.
Allen & Pottle, for plaintiff.
D. S. Sanford and Samuel II. Sibley, for defendants.

Opinion:
Gilbert, J.
1. Where suit is brought to compel specific performance of a parol contract for land, and no facts are alleged to bring the case within any of the exceptions to the statute of frauds, the petition is demurrable. This being such a ease, and the allegations being insufficient to comply with the requirements of the' Civil Code (1910), § 3223, 4634, the court properly sustained a general demurrer and dismissed the petition.
2. It is true that the petition contains some general allegations of possession and part performance of the contract by the plaintiff; but when the facts stated in connection therewith are considered, the allegations are insufficient to comply with the statutes above cited. Civil Code (1910), § 4165; Kinderland v. Kirk, 131 Ga. 454 (62 S. E. 582).
Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices concur.