Heller v. Cochran

124 A. 737, 280 Pa. 579, 1924 Pa. LEXIS 554

• Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
• Decided: May 27, 1924
• Docket: Appeal, No. 8
• Status: Published

Opinion

Per Curiam,

Plaintiff filed a hill in equity for specific performance by defendant of an alleged contract for the sale to him of a certain parcel of real estate in the City of Pottsville. A demurrer was sustained and this appeal followed.

The writing depended on to show the terms of the alleged contract and the description of the property involved is as follows:

«Nov. 21,1922.

«Received from James B. Heller, M.D.

One Hundred.......00/100 Dollars First payment on 317 W. Market for consideration of $20,000.

$100 Ella G. Cochran Catherine G. Cochrane.”

The opinion of the court below sustaining the demurrer and dismissing the bill correctly states: «The agreement in this case is too vague and indefinite to permit equity to enforce it......In addition to the vagueness in the description of the property, there is nothing contained in the agreement relative to the terms or time of payment or delivery of the deed; all of these matters will have to be established by parol evidence, and, indeed, as to some of them the bill alleges verbal agreements were entered into.”

The general subject before us has been so thoroughly discussed in recent cases that it would serve no useful purpose to go over the ground again at this time: See Weisenberger v. Huebner, 264 Pa. 316; O’Connell v. Cease, 267 Pa. 288; Manufacturers’ L. & H. Co. v. Lamp, 269 Pa. 517, 520; Shaw v. Cornman, 271 Pa. 260.

The decree is affirmed at cost of appellant.