Rose v. Cain

How courts have described this case

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• holding that while possession of property and making monthly payments were consistent with an oral agreement, they were also consistent with a rental agreement and thus not inconsistent with an agreement to purchase the property
• “The unclean-hands maxim which bars a complainant in equity from obtaining relief has reference to an iniquity which infects the cause of action so that to entertain it would be violative of conscience.”
• claimant not entitled to equitable relief to set aside security deed when he admitted there was no underlying debt and therefore no consideration supporting security deed that he sought to set aside
• where monthly payments approximating rent were not sufficient to establish part performance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).