132 Ala. 169 | Ala. | 1902
— The bill in (this case was filed for the specific performance of a contract for the sale of land. The bill avers that the complainant “is now in possession of the land,” described in the bill, and that com, plainant “was in the possession of the land,” when the respondent, the Magnetic Ore Company, a corporation,
Section 2152 of the Code of 1896 reads as follows: “In the following cases, every agreement is void, unless such agreement or some note or memorandum thereof, expressing the consideration, is in writing, and subscribed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other pre-son by him thereunto lawfully authorized in Avriting and subdivision 5 under said section is as follows: “EArery contract for the sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or of any interest therein, except leases for a term not longer than one year, unless the purchase money, or a portion thereof, be paid, and the purchaser be put in possession of the land by the seller.”
' The only contract of the sale averred in the bill is that shown by the recital in the judgment entry a copy of AAhich is made an exhibit to the bill. There is no pretense of any agreement, or note or memorandum thereof, expressing the consideration, in writing, and subscribed by the party to be charged thereicith, or some other person thereunto lawfully authorized in writing. The recital of the agreement of the parties in the minute entry, which constituted no part of the judgment proper, is not a compliance with the requirements of the above statute.
The chancellor erred in overruling the demurrer, and the decree will be reversed and the cause remanded.