Court Opinion

ID: 9539743
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:09:24.953488+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:59:17.596724
License: Public Domain

Finley, C. J.
(concurring in the result) — The decisions of this court as to legal documents concerning the sale of land and involving application of the statute of frauds have established a standard or policy respecting legal descriptions which discounts conjecture and strongly emphasizes certainty.
In the instant case the language of the purported agreement is subject to several interpretations when considered in the light of the crucial question: What quantity of land (dimensions or boundary lines) would be necessary “to clear the barn?” The language of the purported agreement does not answer the crucial question with sufficient certainty; hence, specific performance cannot be granted without violating the long-standing policy of this state established as aforementioned in other cases of this nature. On this basis I concur in the result reached by the majority.