Barton v. De Wolf

Citations

• 108 Ill. 195
• 1883 Ill. LEXIS 70

Syllabus

<p>1. Specific pereobmance—contracts for sale of personally. To authorize a court of e'quity to specifically enforce agreements respecting goods, chattels, stocks, choses in action, and other things of a merely personal nature, it must appear or be shown that the remedy at law is inadequate. A court of equity will not exercise jurisdiction when there is a complete and satisfactory remedy at law for damages.</p> <p>2. The fact that a purchaser of stock in a corporation is an employee of such corporation, and interested in its success, affords no ground for a specific performance of the contract of sale by a court of equity</p>