Ballou v. March

Citations

• 133 Pa. 64
• 19 A. 304
• 1890 Pa. LEXIS 873

Syllabus

<p>1. Specific performance of a contract will not be decreed by proceedings in equity, unless the terms of the contract are clear and certain, capable of ascertainment from the instrument itself, and such as afford to the parties mutuality of remedy.</p> <p>2. The contract of defendant to assign a judgment he held against a railroad company, the assignee to sell out the road, organize a new company, and give defendant “ securities thereof.....and a contract for construction,” was not enforceable against defendant.</p>