Peters v. Van Horn

Citations

• 37 Wash. 550
• 79 P. 1110
• 1905 Wash. LEXIS 768

Syllabus

<p>Vendor and Purchaser — Specific Performance — Failure of Title — Knowledge of Vendee Before Suit — Equity—Jurisdiction. A purchaser oí lands cannot maintain an action in equity for specific performance, or for damages in case specific performance cannot he had, where he knew, before the action was commenced, that the vendor could not perform the contract for want of title, since equity will not exercise jurisdiction where the remedy of damages is all that can he decreed.</p>