Ruley v. Gailey

How courts have described this case

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• requiring conveying party to “describe a particular piece or tract of land that can be identified, located, or found.”
• affirming an equitable decree for the specific performance of an oral contract for land, because the purchasers produced a canceled check for the down payment, entered the property, and made substantial improvements to the previously undeveloped lot
• “Pennsylvania courts have emphasized that the Statute is not designed to prevent the performance or enforcement of oral contracts that in fact were made.” (emphasis in original, internal quotation marks omitted)
• maps were properly authenticated through testimony of joint property owner in spite of the fact that surveyor who prepared the map did not testify and proponent did not even know the name of the surveyor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).