Long Trusts v. Griffin

How courts have described this case

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• holding that extrinsic evidence may be used only for the purpose of identifying property with reasonable certainty from data contained in the contract but not for the purpose of supplying the location or description of the property
• the respondent agreed to pay part of drilling and operating costs in exchange for an assignment of part of the working interest in producing wells
• in event of defendant’s material breach of contract, plaintiff may cease performance and sue for breach of contract
• extrinsic evidence may not be used to supply the location information of the property
• statute of frauds applied to contract under which party would “pay part of the drilling and operating costs in exchange for an assignment of part of the working interest in producing wells,” an interest in real estate

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).