2 D.C. 307
Decided April 15, 1822
This was an action brought to recover the purchase-money of about four and a half acres of land, being Lot No. 299, in Beatty & Hawkins’s addition to Georgetown, amounting to $587.01. Upon a demurrer to the evidence the principal question was, whether the auctioneer’s written memorandum of the sale was sufficient to take the case out of the Statute of Frauds.
Decided 1822-04-15
¶1without deciding the question whether an auctioneer’s memorandum of the sale is sufficient to take it out of the Statute of Frauds, was of opinion, that in this case it did not sufficiently in itself describe the property, nor the terms of the sale; nor refer to any other instrument that does describe them.
¶2Judgment, on the demurrer, for the defendant.