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5 Munf. 396

Graham v. Call

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided February 7, 1817

Supreme Court of Virginia · decided 1817-02-07

<p>10 If an agreement for sale oí land, be made subject to a condition, that the price thereof shall after-wards be ascer tained by the parties; and one of the parties die, without agreeing upon the price 5 such a* greement is toe incomplete and uncertain to be carried into ex ecution by a Court of Equity,</p>

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Decided 1817-02-07

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Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 1978

1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions

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¶1February 7th, 1817,

Judge Roane

¶2pronounced the Court’s opinion.

¶3The Court is of opinion that, although the Appellant and the Testator of the Appellee had, the one agreed to sell, and the other to buy, the lot in controversy, such agreement was subject to a condition (by the express admission of the hist mentioned party, at the foot of the account among the proceedings,) that the price thereof was to be thereafter agreed upon by and between the said parties respectively: and the said price having never been so agreed upon by them ; and it being now rendered impossible by the death of the Appellee’s Testator ; the Court is of opinion that the said agreement was not so complete and perfected an one, as that it should be carried Into execution by a Court of Equity, even if the possession of the said lot had been delivered to the said Testator, in pursuance thereof, which is not shewn to have been done. The Decree is therefore to be reversed, with Cosls, and the Bill dismissed, so far as it claims a conveyance of the said lot, and the note taken from the Appellant for the amount of the purchase money thereof, is to be delivered up to him to be can-celled; that the Appellant pay the Costs in the Court of Chancery expended, except those arising from the sale of the lots in the Bill mentioned; and that the residue of the said Decree is to be affirmed.

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