Holley v. Anness

Citations

• 41 S.C. 349
• 19 S.E. 646
• 1894 S.C. LEXIS 116

Syllabus

<p>1. Specific Performance. — The Court of Equity will not entertain a bill by vendor to enforce the specific performance of a contract for the purchase of land, where non-payment is the only ground for relief, there being an adequate remedy at law on the contract.</p> <p>2. Ibid. — The doctrine of specific performance of contracts for the sale of land considered, and specific performance refused at the suit of vendor, without prejudice to his legal action, where the land was proved not to contain the brick-clay which both parties believed it to contain, and which was its chief value and the inducement to defendant’s purchase.</p>