Case Name: Turner et al. Executors, vs. Rives
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1886-02-09
Citations: 1 Ga. L. Rep. 271
Docket Number: 
Parties: Turner et al. Executors, vs. Rives.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Law Reporter
Volume: 1
Pages: 271–272

Head Matter:
Decisions Rendered Tuesday, February 9, 1886.
Turner et al. Executors, vs. Rives.
Complaint for Land, prom Hancock. Pleadings. Ejectment. Vendor and Purchaser. Contracts. Evidence. Deeds. (Before Judge Lumpkin.)

Opinion:
Jackson, C. J.
It is doubtful whether a recovery could have been had on a declaration to recover land, containing a description of the land sued for in these words : "Part of a tract of two hundred and twenty acres, between Fort creek and Shoulder Bone creek, bounded on the north by land of Willis Adams, on the east by lands of Ross and Carpenter and on the south and west by land of said Rives;" but no point was made on it by demurrer or otherwise. Perhaps, had the point been made, it might have been met by an amendment, making the description more accurate.
2. The defendant had the right to file an equitable plea, settingup a contract of sale by a decedent, whose executors were the plaintiffs, to a third party or his assigns; that it had been assigned to the defendant; and that all the purchase money had been paid; and he could compel a specific performance of such contract from the plaintiffs, an offer to recind by defendant having been refused by them.
James A. Harley for plaintiff in error.
Jordan & Lewis for defendant.
3. The contract from the testator of plaintiffs contained the following : "Rec'd of George R. Brown two thousand dollars in full
payment for two hundred and fifty acres of land lying in'Hancock county, adjoining lands of Willie B. Adams, Ross, George S. Rives and Thomas M. Turner, known in the late survey of the lands of Thomas M. Turner as the James M. Hunt place, 175 acres, and the seventy-five acre tract on the west side of Fort creek; possession of lands given this day to said George R. Brown, together with the right of way from the west side of said tract across the lands of Thomas M. Turner to road now leading from Sparta to the W. B. Hunt residence." Then followed an obligation to make title to said Brown, his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns; and on the paper was an assignment for value from Brown to the defendant:
Held, that this contract included the land sued for, as described in the first head note above. J
3; The written contract covered the entire Hunt tract, as a whole, although it may have contained more than one hundred and seventy-five acres, and parol evidence was not admissible to show that the trade was at a given price per acre, there being no allegation of fraud or mistake in the writing and no attempt to reform it.
Judgment affirmed.